Qureshi for more active US role to help lift curfew in IOJ&K

ISLAMABAD, Oct 1 (APP):Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday urged the visiting US Congressmen for a more active US. role to help in lifting the curfew, ensuring the basic rights of the people of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ&K) and resolution of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the wishes and aspirations of Kashmiris.  The foreign minister was talking to two visiting US Congressmen Jim Himes and …

ISLAMABAD, Oct 1 (APP):Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday urged the visiting US Congressmen for a more active US. role to help in lifting the curfew, ensuring the basic rights of the people of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ&K) and resolution of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the wishes and aspirations of Kashmiris. 

The foreign minister was talking to two visiting US Congressmen Jim Himes and Sean Patrick Maloney, who called on him here.

Both are members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and are visiting Pakistan for the first time. 

The foreign minister briefed the Congressmen on the state of play in the bilateral relationship and recent engagements between Prime Minister Imran Khan and President Donald Trump.

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