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ISLAMABAD, May 14 (AFP)-Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel Rahman Shalgham on Sunday supported Islamabad's efforts to resume dialogue with India, during a meeting with Pakistani president, General Pervez Musharraf, officials said. Rahman voiced the hope that Pakistan and India would be able to resolve their dispute over Kashmir on the basis of U.N. resolutions on the issue, an official statement said. The Libyan Foreign Minister, who arrived here last Tuesday on a six-day visit, expressed sympathy for the Afghan people and Libya's readiness to contribute toward restoration of peace in Afghanistan. The statement quoted Rahman as saying that Musharraf's visit to Libya and talks with Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi last month had reinvigorated bilateral ties. Musharraf told Rahman that Pakistan wanted to impart greater economic substance to the bilateral relations, the statement said. The dispute over the northern Himalayan state of Kashmir, divided between Pakistan and India, has caused two wars between the neighbors since their independence in 1947. Since 1989, more than 25,000 people have died in a campaign for an Islamic state in the Indian administered zone, which India blames on Pakistan. Pakistan denies the charge, saying that the campaign is being waged by indigenous Kashmiris for their right to self-determination promised in the 1948-49 U.N. resolutions. Talks between the two neighbors Pakistan and India remain suspended since a bitter border conflict in the Kargil region of Kashmir last year. |
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