KARACHI, June 27: Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi Chairman National Peoples Party and the six-party National Alliance has said that Pakistan and India should work out road map for resolving all issues, particularly core issue of Kashmir peacefully.

By solving Kashmir issue according to wishes of Kashmiri people, the region would prosper, he said while addressing a meeting of NPP’s Federal Council in Karachi on Thursday.

Mr Jatoi said today Pakistan was facing an unusual situation in view of deployment of Indian armed forces on its borders. He felt that steps taken so far by India to defuse tension were not “enough”.

Mr Jatoi emphasised that Pakistan was a peace-loving country and asked Indian Premier Vajpayee to evolve programme for spending resources for the welfare of the people.

He told his party men to prepare for October elections in the country by making the party more active.

Meanwhile, the NPP has expressed concern over law and order situation in the country, which has resulted in more unemployment and less investment.

The council members elected Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, Mir Mumtaz Ali Talpur and Major (retd) Rafiullah Khan Niazi as chairman, vice chairman and secretary general respectively of the party.

Others elected were Mahmud Akbar Kiani, Allah Bachao Leghari, Syed Zia Abbas and Abdullah Ismail as Deputy Secretary General, Chief Organiser, Information Secretary and Finance Secretary respectively.

Briefing newsmen later, Zia Abbas said the meeting through a resolution supported equitable distribution of water among all the four provinces provided in the 1973 Constitution.

It demanded that recovery of government dues in areas declared calamity affected in the four provinces be extended from June 30 to Dec 31.—PPI