About NSAs meeting, he said Pakistan was preparing its agenda for the meeting and consultations for that are underway.
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India’s claim of arresting a “Pakistani suspect”, who their sensationalist film-style news media termed “Kasab 2”, has turned out to be false as reports have shown that the accused in custody belongs to the Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) district of Kulgam and is mentally incapacitated, Geo News reported.
Jammu, August 7 Heavy exchange of fire took place between India and Pakistan on Friday on the line of control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir.
“We cannot invite speaker of the occupied Jammu and Kashmir assembly as it does not enjoy legitimate status”, the advisor to the prime minister on national security and foreign affairs Sartaj Aziz told media in Islamabad on Saturday evening. “This will be taken up at the national security advisers’ meeting”, he said.
The participants said the Kashmir issue should be resolved peacefully and through “meaningful and substantive” talks with India and both sides should work on addressing the mistrust that exists and divides them.
The decision of the speakers come against the backdrop of simmering tensions between the two countries over the recent terror attacks in Gurdaspur in Punjab and near Udhampur in J&K by terrorists, perpetrated by terrorists who had infiltrated from Pakistan. Speaking on current political situation in Afghanistan, the Adviser emphasized that Pakistan believes in an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process’ Being a honest friend and good neighbour of Afghanistan, Pakistan hosted a meeting between the representatives of the Afghan Government and Tehreek-e-Taliban Afghanistan, which was a major breakthrough.
The 61st Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC) will be held in Islamabad from September 30 to October 8.
Raghavan also said that India will not attend the conference if Pakistan did not invite the speaker.
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Pakistani daily The Nation in an editorial had termed Geelani’s refusal “an affront to Pakistan’s diplomatic efforts and will be a setback in the newly-opened talks with India”. “I would like to thank the speaker of the lower house and the legislative assembly members for taking a strong decision”.
