Converting LoC into border not an option

Pakistan Defence Secretary Hamid Nawaz Khan told the American team that Islamabad just could not accept this conversion as being justifiable in the short or the long-term as it involved the "aspirations of the people of Kashmir".

Converting the LoC into an international border "would not be a just solution", Khan was quoted by The News, as saying.

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Meanwhile, Information and Broadcasting Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has again reiterated that Pakistan will not budge an inch from its position on Kashmir.

"People should not have too high expectations from the Indo-Pak dialogue," he told the paper.

"Pakistan has gone two steps ahead for peace in the region, while New Delhi has taken just one step. It is India's moral responsibility to stop murder of innocent Kashmiris forthwith," he stressed.

"The issue is not to run factories for enhanced trade, but the real question is to take the Kashmiris along. The success of SAARC hinges on the resolution of the Kashmir issue," he added.