To a question about the statement of Former foreign minister Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri that the solution to the Kashmir dispute was just a signature away once India and Pakistan decide to pull the file from the rack and revealed the previous Musharraf government had completed almost 90 per cent of the spadework on the half-a-century old Kashmir dispute by 2007 as the whole exercise just needed the formal signature of all the three parties to the issue - Pakistan, India and representatives of Kashmir., Shah Mehmood did not agree with him and said Kashmir dispute cannot be resolved by a single person nor by the foreign office and it would be resolved through positive negotiations between Pakistan and India but India was reluctant to come to the negotiation.Shah Mehmood also disagree with Mr. Kasuri that three-year long arduous efforts were rendered fruitless by the sudden emergence of the judiciary-executive row in 2006, which forced the Musharraf regime to put the matter on the backburner for the time being. Shah Mehmood said that it was not true that the two sides had agreed to full demilitarisation of both Indian Kashmir as well as Azad Kashmir. In addition, a package of loose autonomy that stopped short of the azadi and self-governance aspirations, had been agreed on and was to be introduced on both sides of the disputed frontier, as claimed by former foreign minister.Qureshi said the United States has realized that the Pakistani nation has delivered and now the Americans have to do something. Commenting on the strategic dialogue between Pakistan and the United States which concluded recently, he said it is a process which has been initiated. “You have to see the basic difference between the past and the present meetings. The level of interaction has been upgraded. You can see the level of participation. There are specifics and by the end of April, we will be delivered a big sum and by the end of financial year, the backlog will be cleared,” Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that India was reluctant to accept the stance of Pakistan on water issue and implementing the Indus water treaty. Qureshi said that Indian Prime Minister Manmohan singh had positive thinking but indian pressure groups were spoiling the situation because they were very influential. He said that two nuclear neighbours were quite worried about the volatile situation in the region, especially around the LoC. “All India and Pakistan now need is to defreeze the process.he said.
