CPI calls for meaningful Indo-Pak dialogue to resolve Kashmir issue

Ruling out any third party intervention on Kashmir, Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D. Raja on Saturday asked India to demonstrate its maturity and its commitment by stepping up diplomatic and political measures to impress Islamabad to consider having a meaningful dialogue.

"India and Pakistan will have to engage in a meaningful dialogue to discuss and resolve all the issues bilaterally. No question of third party mediation, no question of internationalising this bilateral issue at this point of time," said Raja.

"India as a matured nation, India as an important nation in South Asia should demonstrate its maturity and its commitment through stepping up diplomatic and political measures to impress upon Pakistan Government," he added.

The CPI leader asked Pakistan not to internationalise the Kashmir issue, and added that these issues will have to be resolved through meaningful dialogue bilaterally.

Condemning the repeated ceasefire violations from the other side of the border, he said: "It is really provocative on the part of Government of Pakistan and it should be condemned. Pakistan Army cannot resort to frequent violation of ceasefire agreement and Pakistan Army cannot resort to provocative incursions and actions on the Line of Control (LoC) Government of India should take it up with all seriousness with the Government of Pakistan."

"India and Pakistan have already agreed for a composite dialogue process. Pakistan must respect this Shimla Agreement, Lahore Declaration, all these things, Pakistan Government is a party and should respect these things and resume the dialogue process," he added.

Earlier on Thursday, Pakistan's Parliament unanimously passed a resolution against the alleged 'unprovoked and indiscriminate' ceasefire violations by India and asked the government to seek UN intervention to resolve the Kashmir issue.

The resolution, which was moved by Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz, stated that the National Assembly condemned Indian ceasefire violations at the Line of Control (LoC) and the International Border (IB).

On October 26, a proposed 'Million March' by Pakistanis will begin in London's Trafalgar Square and end at Prime Minister David Cameron's office at 10, Downing Street, where a petition would be submitted asking Britain to push New Delhi into resolving the Kashmir impasse with Islamabad.