Pakistan PM Shahid Abbasi rejects ‘Independent Kashmir’

Pakistan PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Monday rejected the concept of an “Independent Kashmir”, announcing it turned into no longer primarily based on “truth”, consistent with a media file. Abbasi turned into addressing a convention on ‘future of Pakistan 2017’ held at the London college of Economics’ South Asia Centre.

After his deal with, the PM replied to a number of questions about topics from Afghanistan, civil-army ties, disqualification of his predecessor Nawaz Sharif, to relations with India and the Kashmir trouble.

“There is no assist for the call for unbiased Kashmir,” he claimed.

“Talks are the handiest way ahead, without talks no quantum alternate is possible,” he stated.

To any other question, he said although the judiciary had removed Sharif as high minister, “however we’ve got left it to records to choose whether or not history accepts the judgment or not”.

He additionally stated that most of Pakistan does not agree with Sharif’s disqualification by way of the supreme court. Sharif became disqualified as optimal through the apex court docket on 28 July in the Panama Papers scandal.

On US-Pakistan relations, Abbasi said they have to no longer be described by way of Afghanistan by myself. The high minister additionally presented a high-quality image of Pakistan’s financial system and claimed there has been a marked development in every monetary field considering 2013.