No change in govt's Kashmir policy FO.

Byline: Baqir Sajjad Syed

ISLAMABAD -- The Foreign Office on Friday insisted that there was no change in the government's policy on the Kashmir dispute.

'There is no change in Pakistan's principled and long-held position on the Jammu and Kashmir dispute,' FO spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said at the weekly media briefing while replying to questions about the agreement reached with India following the 'hotline contact' between directors general of military operations (DGMOs) of the two countries.

The Pakistan government had earlier laid down conditions for engaging with India, which specifically included reversal of August 2019 action of annexing occupied Jammu and Kashmir and end of human rights violations and atrocities against Kashmiri people.

There has been no major forward movement on any of the engagement conditions set by Pakistan as neither annexation of held Kashmir has been revoked nor have human rights violations ceased.

India has committed over 13,600 ceasefire violations since 2003

'We have been repeatedly saying that gross human rights violations in India and IIOJK are a matter of deep concern,' Mr Chaudhri told the briefing.

Therefore, holding of the DGMOs' talks...