ISLAMABAD: PML-N leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said he backs Prime Minister Imran Khan’s position on not resuming talks with India till it revokes the decision of annexing Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
“I support the stand taken by Imran Khan on Kashmir today,” Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, former prime minister said. However, government makes a U-turn on their statements every other day, Abbasi added.
Few days ago, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi had said Article 370 is not our problem. But today, the prime minister said that we would not negotiate with India till it reverses its decision to scrap Article 370, Abbasi said while talking to a private television network.
“I support the stand taken by Imran Khan on Kashmir today,” the PML-N leader said about the statement PM Imran Khan made during a live Q and A session with the masses. However, he said the incumbent officials have made the Kashmir issue controversial, as the government makes a U-turn on their statements every other day.
The premier, during the session earlier in the day, had addressed concerns by Kashmiris of Pakistan returning to the negotiating table with India.
He said that unless and until New Delhi reverses its August 5 decision of scrapping Article 370, the government of Pakistan would not hold any dialogue with it.
Meanwhile, Two days back, the PML-N had lashed out at the government over what it says is a “historic U-turn” on its stance relating to India’s Article 370 move.
“In my opinion, Article 370 does not hold [the same level of] importance,” the foreign minister had said during a private interview, a few days ago. “[What is of importance is] Article 35-A. In my opinion, the important part of their constitution of Article 35-A.”
The foreign minister had then said that India was using Article 35-A to bring about demographic changes in occupied Kashmir.
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