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UK MP urges Pakistan and India to demilitarise LoC

British parliamentarian and attorney general Dominic Grieve has urged Pakistan and India to pull back troops from across the Line of Control (LoC).

A delegation of members of the British House of Commons from the Conservative Party was on a visit to Pakistan. The six-member delegation included Grieve, Paul Goodman and Syeda Warsi.

Addressing a press conference with Barrister Sultan Mahmood, the opposition leader in the AJK legislative assembly, the British legislator said, “New Delhi and Islamabad are declared nuclear powers and both states should explore venues to workout negotiated settlement of Kashmir dispute. However, solution of this complicated dispute is impossible without end to violence and participation of valley people in the ongoing talks process”.

He also urged both countries to withdraw troops from Kashmir so that the people of the valley could meet each other freely.Sultan said that India’s refusal to reciprocate the flexibility demonstrated by Pakistan on such issues as confidence-building measures had increased the problems of the Kashmiri people. “Indian troop brutalities in held-Kashmir are going on unabated and following Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s failure to announce on easing of border restrictions has further deteriorated the situation,” he said.

More: dailytimes.com.pk

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