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Rocca hold talks with Pak leaders on issues including Kashmir
Islamabad, May 12: Visiting US Secretary of State Christina Rocca today held talks with Pakistani leaders on a host of bilateral and regional issues, including the progress in Indo-Pak dialogue process, with Islamabad insisting that durable peace is possible only if Kashmir issue is resolved keeping in view the aspirations of Kashmiri people.
Islamabad, May 12: Visiting US Secretary of State
Christina Rocca today held talks with Pakistani leaders on a
host of bilateral and regional issues, including the progress
in Indo-Pak dialogue process, with Islamabad insisting that
durable peace is possible only if Kashmir issue is resolved
keeping in view the aspirations of Kashmiri people.
Rocca, who is here on a three-day visit, met Foreign
Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri and discussed bilateral and
regional issues including the progress of the India-Pak
dialogue to resolve Kashmir and other outstanding issues,
state-run PTV reported.
It said Kasuri made it clear that durable peace is
possible only if the Kashmir issue is resolved keeping in view
the aspirations of the people of Kashmir.
Kasuri and Rocca also discussed the situation in
Afghanistan and Iraq, it said.
Later Rocca also met President Pervez Musharraf and
premier Zafarullah Khan Jamali.
Rocca came amid statements by US officials in Afghanistan that they would crack down hard on al-Qaeda and Taliban militants holed up in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.
Rocca came amid statements by US officials in Afghanistan that they would crack down hard on al-Qaeda and Taliban militants holed up in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.
Bureau Report