PrunefaceAziz
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in goodjihadis and
badjihadis as a matter of national policy...
on Friday told politicians in the National Assembly that the Kashmire issue would only be resolved through indigenous movements within India-held Kashmire led by the younger generation.
Aziz said Pakistain would continue extending political, diplomatic and moral support to the Kashmiri cause on international and bilateral forums.
"We have been taking our diplomatic campaign forward with zeal since Prime Minister Nawaz's speech regarding the Kashmire issue in the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
General Assembly.
"The movement has not lost any of its zeal even after the aggression against it and Pakistain will continue to support it," he reiterated.
Pakistain is willing to hold a dialogue with India on all issues, on the condition that the Kashmire dispute is brought to the table and a resolution sought in accordance with United Nations resolutions, Aziz said.
"Even though we have a policy of neighbourly relations with all neighbouring countries we will stick to this policy on Kashmire issue," he said. "These are the points of our international policy, which has always remained the same, even though there is a shift in its intensity from time to time," he explained.
He added that Pakistain "will respond in kind to any Indian violence as we have the capability to defend our borders."
The adviser's statements come days after Indian troops targeted a passenger bus and ambulance across the Line of Control, and killed three Pakistain Army soldiers and 10 civilians in various incidents of 'unprovoked' firing.
Tension between the two countries is again at a peak following an alleged Indian 'surgical strike', unrest in Kashmire and the Uri army base attack in September.
Since then there have been repeated outbreaks of cross-border firing in Kashmire, with both sides reporting deaths and injuries including of civilians.
Modi stepped up a drive to isolate Pakistain diplomatically after the Uri army base attack in September in which 19 Indian soldiers were killed. Hours after the attack occurred, Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh termed Pakistain a 'terrorist state' and accused Pakistain of involvement.