Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 8: MLA Kangan and senior NC leader Mian Altaf has termed the visit of India’s External Affairs Minister to Pakistan as a welcome step and need of the hour.
In a statement issued here today Mian Altaf said that this visit will be fruitful for both the countries to settle their long pending disputes.
After a long gap, the visit of External Affairs Minister to Pakistan once again proved that dialogue is the only way to solve the disputes.
Gujjar leader urged the leadership of India and Pakistan to address the requirements of the future rather than focusing on the hangover of the past. He said that there is a dire need of constructive engagement that can reduce the level of mistrust in both countries. He hoped that visit of Sushma Swaraj to Pakistan will provide a relief to the people of Jammu and Kashmir State living on the LoC and IB, being big sufferers during last year’s hostilities between two centuries and cross border firing.
Altaf said that in border areas of Jammu, Kathua, Samba and Rajouri and Poonch districts people have faced tremendous problems due to cross border firing and now they will surely get relief. He suggested that the dialogue should be a continuing process, because it is the only viable way to solve the all long pending disputes. Both the countries should decide that it was time to change the environment, the narrative and the mindset and to start investing in friendship, trust-building and serious mature relations with each other rather than investing in hostility which has always resulted into disastrous consequences for the people of the two countries, Altaf said.
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