SRINAGAR: Hurriyat (G) Chairman Syed Ali Geelani Tuesday said that the basic issue between India and Pakistan is the unresolved Kashmir dispute and until this is addressed as core issue and until this dispute is solved according to the wishes and aspirations of the Kashmiri people, the talks between these two neighbors will prove a futile action like the past.
Geelani was reacting to the statement of Sharif that Pakistan was ready to start talks with India without any preconditions.
Geelani reminded that India and Pakistan have held 150 rounds of talks so far but all those parleys have yield nothing nor did they improved the relations between the two nations.
Geelani said that the history of dialogues between India and Pakistan had not been so well and the issues from the time of partition stand unresolved in 2015.
Hurriyat (G) chairman said that the basic issue between India and Pakistan is the Kashmir dispute and all the other issues between them are the offshoots of this basic issue.
He said that Kashmir is not any border dispute between the two nations but it is the issue of the future and life and death of more than 15 million human beings.
Syed Ali Geelani said that the rigid and stubborn approach of India is the only biggest hurdle in the resolution of the Kashmir dispute and it his created uncertainty and political instability in the entire South Asian region. As the two South Asian neighbors have fought two full scale wars so far and another destructive war in the future cannot be ruled out. He said that if an another round of unconditional dialogue between the two nations is held in this situation and if the Kashmir is not addressed as core issue and the sincere efforts are not made to resolve this long pending International dispute, then it will be an another addition to the customary dialogue process and it will yield nothing concrete.
Appealing rulers of Pakistan, particularly Prime Minister Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif to maintain consistency in their Kashmir policy, the Hurriyat Chairman said that there is no argument and justification with India to hold Jammu & Kashmir under its forced occupation and if Pakistan will maintain consistency in its Kashmir policy, then India will definitely face difficulties in front of the international community and it will not be in position to defend its forced military occupation of Kashmir.
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