India Decries Pakistan Raising J&K Issue In Asian African Summit

23 April, Jakarta

India today said it is most unfortunate that Pakistan has once again chosen to use Asian African Summit to make tendentious remarks about the Jammu and Kashmir. Secretary East in the Ministry of External Affairs, Anil Wadhwa reiterated that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India.

He was responding to Pakistan Prime Minister’s Advisor for National Security and Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz, who had made an unacceptable reference to Kashmir during the the ongoing Asian African Summit in Jakarta.

Wadhwa said the Pakistan knows that under the Simla Agreement and the Lahore Declaration, the two countries are committed to resolve all outstanding issues bilaterally through peaceful dialogue and cooperation and not in a multilateral forum.