Summary PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif says Kashmir issue should be resolved in accordance with UN resolutions.
LAHORE: The former prime minister said this while talking to media after a meeting with a visiting All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) team at his residence at Raiwind on Friday.
Nawaz Sharif acknowledged that Pakistan s leadership had been at fault for the lack of progress on key outstanding issues with India, saying they had not taken such matters "seriously".
"In the last 64 years, the two sides have sometimes stopped talking completely and sometimes they sat together and made decisions but there were no results." He said
"Vajpayee had said that 1999 would be the year for solving India-Pakistan problems and I was pleasantly surprised. If the process was not derailed, it may have happened," he said.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who is heading the Hurriyat delegation, said all the Pakistani leaders they had met had assured them that "they were with the Kashmiri movement".
"Trade and people-to-people contacts are CBMs that can improve the atmosphere. The solution must be political and we have to ask the Kashmiris what they want," he said.
The APHC team would also hold meetings with different political parties and Kashmiri leaders in Lahore.
