LYALLPUR: Pakistan is inviting the attention of the Soviet Union towards the implications involved in the resumption of arms supplies to India by her and its impact on Indo-Pakistan relations in general and on the Kashmir dispute in particular.

This was disclosed here today [May 29] by Chaudhri Ali Akbar Khan, Central Home and Kashmir Affairs Minister, while talking to newsmen at the local Circuit House this morning.

He said Pakistan was deeply concerned “over the supplies of Soviet arms to India particularly when India was intransigently avoiding implementation of the Tashkent Declaration which provided for peaceful solution of all outstanding disputes between the two countries including that of Kashmir”.

The Minister disclosed that the Pakistan Government had already informed the visiting Soviet parliamentary delegation, headed by Soviet Presidium Deputy Chairman, Mr Muzorov, about the reaction of the people of Pakistan on the supply of those arms.

“We have also brought them home the repeated violations of Tashkent Declaration by India and calculated mass eviction of Kashmiris from Indian-occupied Kashmir,” he said.

The members of the delegation were “impressed” by Pakistan’s concern, he added.

The massive supplies of arms to India, he observed, were encouraging her to let loose a reign of terror in occupied Kashmir.

He said the Tashkent Agreement came through the good offices of the Soviet Premier, Mr Alexei Kosygin, to bring about “real and permanent peace” in this sub-continent. The document was the result of Mr Kosygin’s “sincere and honest efforts” to see the two countries settle their outstanding disputes.

Published in Dawn, May 30th, 2016