Pak foreign minister meets Yasin Malik, talks JK

A day ahead of her visit to India for crucial peace talks, Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Monday said bilateral parleys on Kashmir issue should not be only "for the sake of dialogue" and should yield "constructive results".

Khar, who will hold talks with her Indian counterpart S M Krishna in New Delhi on July 27, is scheduled to leave for India on Tuesday. She made the remarks during a meeting with Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front leader Yasin Malik at the State Guest House in Lahore.

"Pakistan believes in the resolution of the Kashmir issue as per the wishes of the Kashmiris in the light of the United Nations resolutions on Kashmir," she said.

Genuine Kashmiri leaders should be part of the dialogue on the issue and concerns shown by the Kashmiri leadership will be raised during her meeting with Krishna, she said.

"The concept of a tripartite meeting on Kashmir was based on suggestions of the Kashmiri leaders that no dialogue could produce results without the inclusion of genuine Kashmiri leaders in the dialogue process," Khar said.

She contended that the "Kashmir movement was a real movement comprising sections of Kashmiri society" and Pakistan fully supports this movement.

The Pakistan government is on the "same page" with the JKLF leadership on the Kashmir issue, she added. Khar invited JKLF leaders for a meeting prior to her departure to India.