Alvi urges world powers to play due role.

Byline: Iqtidar Gilani

LAHORE -- President Dr Arif Alvi has urged the world powers to come forward and play due role for resolving the Kashmir issue.

'Pakistan is a peace-loving country that wants cordial relations with all the nations,' the president said while addressing an event on 'Youth mobilization on Peace Building' at Alhamra on Saturday.

Minister for Housing Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed and Participants of International Students Week in Pakistan (ISWIP) attended the sitting.

Dr Alvi said that normalization of relations with India was the priority of Prime Minister Imran Khan from the day one but the neighboring country was trying to annex Kashmir through brute force.

He said the PM believed that regional peace and cordial relations between the two nuclear powers can guarantee a better future.

'Unfortunately, capturing Kashmir with force is priority of India', he said, adding, people in the held valley were being denied even their basic human rights. He said that the PM had made it clear to the world community that all third world countries including Pakistan and India were facing similar challenges.

.'Since the war was not a solution to any problem, the world powers should play due role to solving the dispute,' the president said.

He said that .giving enabling environment to people to earn respectable livelihood would bring peace and prosperity in...