FM, Holland discuss US-Pak ties.

ISLAMABAD -- Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Democratic member of the US Senate Chris Van Holland during their special meeting in Pakistan House Washington, discussed bilateral ties and other issues of mutual interests.

The Foreign Minister said that Pakistan attached high priority to its ties with the US and wanted to further strengthen them through promotion of strategic partnership. Qureshi informed him about the continuous lockdown of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ and K) which entered into fifth month, illegal restrictions and the serious law and order situation there, a press release received here Saturday said.

He also appreciated Holland's principled stance over the continuing grave human rights violations in the IOJ and K.

The Foreign Minister said that Indian government's policies, state sponsored aggression and its steps of pushing the minorities against the wall had seriously endangered peace in the entire South...