India sabotaging peace in region, says Nisar

LONDON: Minister for Interior Ch Nisar Ali Khan said on Friday that India was sabotaging peace in the region and was backtracking from the dialogue on ever-changing pretexts putting regional security at stake.
He said that India’s logic to avoid discussing Kashmir in talks with Islamabad was absurd. He said India needed to understand that the dialogue process between the two countries would not move forward without discussions on Kashmir.
He expressed these views while talking to British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond.
Britain urged Pakistan and India to come to the negotiating table for resolving their issues, stated British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond.
He lauded Pakistan’s efforts for peace in the region and said they acknowledged the peace vision of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
He also expressed the hope that there would be no disruption in the dialogue process in Afghanistan and it would move forward. He assured of British support in this regard.
The foreign secretary also expressed the hope that the dialogue process with Afghanistan would move forward and would not face impediments, assuring his support in this regard.
Both the sides agreed that there was no misunderstanding in the Pakistan-UK relations nor they will allow it to take place in future.
The British foreign secretary said Pakistan and the United Kingdom enjoyed a special relationship. “There is neither any room for any misunderstanding in these relations nor we will allow such misunderstandings to crop up,” he said.
Nisar told Hammond that Pakistan and the UK shared their foreign policy on many fronts and Islamabad gave great importance to its relations with London.
The interior minister said the Pakistan government and its defence institutions paved the way for peace talks in Afghanistan but unfortunately the international community’s response was not positive in this regard.
Meanwhile, Minister for Defence Khawaja Muhammad Asif said that there was no option of a limited war between Pakistan and India and in case of Indian aggression, Pakistan’s response would not be limited and the choice would be with Pakistan on its response and the scale, manner and intensity would be decided by Pakistan.
In a tweet, he said that India had continuously been violating the ceasefire agreement and had resorted to unprovoked firing on the Line of Control (LoC) and the Working Boundary for more than a hundred times and had targeted the civilians.
He said that the nation was still in a state of war against the hidden enemy. He said September 1965 reminded the great sacrifices of the army men who had laid down their lives for the defence of the country.