Hope for peaceful political settlement of Kashmir issue: Imran Khan

5 Dariya News

Tehran 22-Apr-2019

Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan and Iranian President and Hasan Rouhani addressed a joint press conference in Tehran on Monday, Imran Khan said that I feel strongly without justice there is no peace and a huge amount of injustice has been done to the Palestinian people.Imran Khan said this will lead to uncertainly in the region. He said that the Indian security forces had been trying to oppress the people of Kashmir. “Over 70,000 people have died in Kashmir”.“I feel the only way is through dialogue and political settlement of the Kashmir issue not through military means,” Imran stressed. The whole subcontinent will benefit once the issue is settled. This will help Iran in trade too, the prime minister said. He said justice will bring peace, not force.He said “we discussed ways of improving trade and cooperation between the two countries.” He said that Iran had one of the best primary healthcare system in the world. We have brought our newly appointed health minister to learn from the Iranian experience, he said.Imran said, “We can mutually benefit from cooperation in science and technology. We have very limited amount of trade at the moment.” “Thank you, President, for the hospitality and the way the talks have gone,” he said.He said that “We would not have needed a translator in the past. We all used to speak Persian. The court language for 600 years in the Indian subcontinent was Persian.” (PTK)