ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States, Asad Majeed Khansays India’s aggressive unilateral actions on Kashmir have posed a gravethreat to regional peace.

In an interview with Fox news, he said issue of Kashmir cannot be settledunilaterally as this issue has been at the agenda of the United Nations forlast 70-year.

The Ambassador said provocation has come from India while Pakistan wantspeace in the region but India is not reciprocating positively.

He urged the international community to mediate to resolve the issue.

In another interview with the New York Times, Asad Majeed Khan saidPakistan and India are two major countries having nuclear capability and ahistory of conflict and if things get worse they will get worse.

Reiterating Pakistan`s support for Afghan peace process, Asad Majeed Khansaid Kashmir and Afghanistan issues are separate but the ongoing Kashmircrisis can affect Afghan peace talks as Pakistan might redeploy troops fromthe Afghan border to the Kashmir frontier which could complicate the peacetalks.

He said India’s crackdown on the disputed region of Kashmir, on Pakistan’seastern border with India could not have come at a worse time becausePakistan was seeking to strengthen military control along the westernborder with Afghanistan as part of efforts to help end the Afghanistanconflict.

He, however, said that Pakistan has always supported Afghan peace processand is still doing all it can.