Charging India with adopting coercive means, Pakistan has written letters to UN General Assembly and the Security Council to urge New Delhi to start a composite Indo-Pak dialogue and agree for a ceasefire on the Line of Control.
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The letters written by Pakistan's Permanent Ambassador to the UN Munir Akram say: "So far, there is no talk about talks, no roadmap and no signpost for moving towards a genuine process for peace and security in South Asia."
Calling upon the international community to urge India to agree for resumption of dialogue, the letters says "a bilateral dialogue is not a favour which either country would bestow on the other."
"India's demand that Pakistan make unilateral concessions to its position is designed to frustrate not facilitate a dialogue. India's aversion to talks, is premised on seeking concessions from Pakistan unilaterally through coercive means," the letters add.
Munir argues in the letters that "a delay in opening such a dialogue is bound to strengthen the positions of extremists and complicate the search for acceptable mutual solutions to outstanding issues. These trends may accentuate in view of the ascendancy of militant Hindu extremist sentiments within the Indian polity now being manifested in the pre-electoral play in India."
