22.10.13

Pak PM for US intervention in Kashmir

Ahead of his meeting with President Barack Obama, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has sought the US’s intervention in resolving the Kashmir issue.
“Though India did not want such (third party) intervention, but the world powers should get involved to resolve the (Kashmir) issue,” Sharif told reporters in London during a stopover on his way to the US where he will meet Obama on Wednesday.
India was quick to reject the proposal, asserting that Kashmir was an integral part of the country and it would be a “waste of time” for anybody to even try to question this. External affairs minister Salman Khurshid made it very clear that India would not accept any US intervention.
The government also got the backing of the BJP, with senior party leader Murli Manohar Joshi saying no third party has the right to interfere on the matter, and appealed to Obama to reject Sharif’s proposal.
Sharif said during his visit to the US in July 1999, during the Kargil conflict, he had clearly told then US President Bill Clinton that if the US intervened, the Kashmir issue could be resolved.

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