Pakistan calls for US to settle Kashmir ISSUE:

NEW YORK – Pakistan on Tuesday urged the United States to pressure India into settling the core issue of Kashmir between India and Pakistan amid a popular revolt in the disputed state by the oppressed people against Indian occupation.
“The occupation cannot continue. The rights of the Kashmiri people cannot continue to be denied,” Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said at the Council on Foreign Relations, a think-tank.
His strong statement came on a day the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon also broke his silence on the explosive situation, calling for an immediate end to violence in the Occupied Kashmir where Indian security forces have killed more than 100 freedom-seeking protestors.
Qureshi said the ongoing clashes showed that India and not Pakistan was to blame for the uprising Kashmir where army troops have been enforcing a 24-hour curfew.
On a visit to New York for a UN General Assembly session, the Foreign Minister reaffirmed his Government’s desire of peace with India denounced New Delhi’s rule in Kashmir as “oppression.”
The Foreign Minister’s sharp remarks came ahead of his expected meeting with Indian External Affairs Minister SM Krishna, who arrived in New York On Tuesday.
“The international community must recognise that the people of Kashmir, in an entirely indigenous upsurge, are demanding their right to self-determination,” Qureshi said while rejecting allegations that Pakistan was behind the revolt against New Delhi’s rule.
Stressing that the uprising in the Occupied Kashmir was indigenous, he said Pakistan has neither the means nor the capacity to mobilise the young and old to stage protest demonstrations and shut down towns and cities.
Although Qureshi covered a number of topics, he made the most detailed statement so far on the Kashmir dispute. He urged India to take a “fresh look” at the evolving situation in the territory and sit down with Pakistan in an effort to resolve the festering dispute. “Dialogue is the only way forward ..We can do it.”
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