Pakistan Wants Result-Oriented Talks With India: FO.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan yesterday said that it wanted result-oriented dialogue with India and urged New Delhi to stop bloodshed in held Kashmir.

Speaking at a weekly news briefing here, Foreign Office spokesperson Asim Iftikhar Ahmed said that Pakistan's position vis-a-vis the importance of friendly cooperative relations with neighbours including India was very clear.

'The need for dialogue, a dialogue which is a result oriented and a meaningful dialogue which can lead to progress on outstanding issues including particularly the Jammu and Kashmir dispute is very obvious,' he said.

He added: 'We have said that the environment for such dialogue is not there, this is what the Foreign Minister has also said recently. The environment has been vitiated by Indian actions, and the onus is therefore on India to take necessary steps to create an environment which will be conducive for dialogue. Now what the Indians have been saying all along, this bogey of terrorism, it's an old repeated, parroted position, it has no locus standi, especially coming from India which itself is a state sponsor of terrorism, involved in supporting, financing, perpetrating terrorism and sabotage in Pakistan over the years, including in the past through its presence in Afghanistan.'

India, he said, also uses the ploy of terrorism to undermine the legitimate struggle for self-determination of the Kashmiri people and to divert the attention of the international community from its widespread atrocities and human rights violations in IIOJK.

On Afghanistan, he said Pakistan had condoled the loss of precious lives and damage to property caused by the tragic earthquake in Paktika province of Afghanistan and its adjoining areas, and torrential floods in various provinces across the country.

'Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif held a telephonic conversation with Acting Prime Minister of the interim Afghan government, Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund to offer condolences and prayers for the departed souls and wished speedy recovery for the injured,' he said.

On the directives of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, he said, Pakistan had dispatched relief goods to Afghanistan on 22 June 2022. Government and people of Pakistan stand ready to extend all possible support to ameliorate the suffering of the Afghan people in this difficult time.

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