PoK Council calls for result-oriented dialogue

By B. Muralidhar Reddy

ISLAMABAD, JUNE 28. The Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) Council has called on the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, to ``engage in a substantive, meaningful and result-oriented dialogue with the President of Pakistan, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, during the forthcoming summit meeting to settle the Kashmir dispute in accordance with U.N. Security Council resolutions''.

The PoK Council had a special session here today with Gen. Musharraf in the chair. The PoK President, Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, the Prime Minister, Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhary, and other members attended the session called to deliberate on the latest developments with regard to the ``situation in Jammu and Kashmir''.

Through a statement adopted at the session, the Council ``fully supported the efforts of the Government of Pakistan for a peaceful solution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute in accordance with the wishes of its people through all possible means, including a substantive and meaningful dialogue with India''. It also welcomed the coming visit of Gen. Musharraf to India and described it as a ``historic opportunity for a resolution of the Kashmir dispute, the root cause of tension between the two countries''.

The Council noted with satisfaction the statements of Gen. Musharraf, in which he had stressed that Kashmir would be the focus of the talks. Welcoming the assurances that he would call upon India to join hands in a peaceful settlement of the dispute in accordance with the wishes of the Kashmiri people, the Council urged India and Pakistan to agree to the participation of the All-Party Hurriyat Conference in the negotiations for a final settlement of the Kashmir issue.

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