ISLAMABAD -Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi held importantmeeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Minister for Foreign Affairs Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Friday met with USSecretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington to discuss the situation inthe Middle East and take up India’s continuing human rights violations inoccupied Kashmir.
Qureshi is on the final leg of his tri-state visit aimed at diffusingUS-Iran tensions, as instructed by Prime Minister Imran Khan.
He informed Pompeo about the ongoing human rights abuses in occupiedKashmir, saying eight million people in the occupied region have been “keptconfined” through a curfew imposed by New Delhi for the past five months, aForeign Office statement said.
Qureshi noted that a communications blackout in the valley remains in placein order “to conceal the facts from the world’s view”.
“The dream of a ‘peaceful South Asia’ of the US and Pakistan cannot berealised until the Kashmir dispute is resolved in accordance with UnitedNations resolutions and through a plebiscite of eight million Kashmiris,”the FO quoted Qureshi as saying.
Tensions between Pakistan and India had spiked after New Delhi revokedoccupied Kashmir’s special status in August last year.