Pakistan urges India to adopt dialogue process to resolve issues

Pakistan on Thursday expressed its grave concern on the recent incidents of violation of cease-fire across Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir and urged India to adopt the process of dialogue to resolve issues and build trust between the two countries. According to an official press release, Pakistan has once again called upon India to reciprocate its policy of restraint, responsibility and dialogue for the larger interest of peace in the region, said Chaudhry. The Foreign Office spokesman Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry in his weekly briefing asked the Indian leadership to adopt patience like Pakistan has been showing to reduce tension across LoC. The Foreign Office Spokesman regarding the meeting between the prime ministers of two countries in New York in September said that the leadership of Pakistan is prepared to use that occasion to build confidence and remove the trust deficit. All channels of communications should remain open, as suspension of dialogue process will serve the objectives of those who do not want peace in the region, he added. Aizaz Chaudhry suggested that there are many methods to check and stop the violation of cease-fire across LoC and one of them is United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) which is responsible for monitoring any violation across LoC. Mr. Chaudhry further informed that Pakistan is committed to a constructive, sustained and result-oriented process of engagement it called upon India to take serious and credible measures to prevent further cease-fire violations and reduce tensions. "Our peace overtures are essentially in the interest of the region and the two countries," he added. The spokesman clearly indicated that offer of dialogue to India by Pakistan did not mean that Pakistan has given up its stance on Kashmir and referred the recent address of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in which he categorically stated that Jammu Kashmir issue is still unresolved issues between Pakistan and India and it has to be resolved. The tensions between India and Pakistan have risen in past few weeks after the killing of five Indian soldiers in which India accused the Pakistani soldiers to be involved that was rejected by Pakistan. The Foreign Office spokesman told that Pakistan has conveyed its distress to the Indian government and the Indian Deputy High Commissioner in Islamabad was summoned to the Foreign Office to convey Pakistans protest, concern and sentiments over the violation at LoC, in the Shaqma Sector that resulted in the martyrdom of a Pakistan Army captain and injury to another solider on Wednesday.