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Pak for resolution of Kashmir issue: Zardari
LAST UPDATE: Saturday, 29 Mar 2008 - 2:22:57 AM
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will move forward to resolve the Kashmir issue with India through a peaceful dialogue and the nation's new government will continue confidence-building measures initiated by the previous regime, PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said..
"We are totally (involved) with Kashmir. We intend to solve the problem and not just to (do) shadow-boxing for it," Zardari told reporters after a meeting with People's Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti.
Asked if the new coalition government led by his Pakistan People's Party will continue the CBMs initiated by the previous administration, Zardari said, "We want not only CBMs but action. We want to move forward and to solve this issue.
"The PPP and the democratic forces of Pakistan have always said that democracies do not fight wars. Our message is of peace and we want peace. We want peace in the region and along all our borders," he said.
"We want the guns to rust and our future generations should not have to make the sacrifices that the current and past generations have made." Further progress could be made towards resolving the issue if Kashmiris from both sides of the border could freely meet their kin. The true potential of the youth on both sides could be achieved if they were given a pen or a business instead of the guns they are wielding, he said.
The PPP's Kashmir policy and the existing CBMs will be taken to parliament after discussions with the party's "senior partners", Zardari said.
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