By Zahid Shah

ISLAMABAD (TSAT) - Pakistan said there is no suitable environment for dialogue with India until New Delhi move ahead and discard its illegal actions of August 2019 in Kashmir.

During the weekly media briefing, the Foreign Ministry spokesman Asim Iftikhar Ahmad said that Islamabad want good relations with all neighbours including India but currently there is no environment to move on.

“On multiple occasions, the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister have expressed our position on this matter. We are committed to improve relations with India and have a dialogue which is meaningful, constructive, result oriented and sustained. But India has vitiated the environment - the conditions are not there,” Ahmad said.

He added that New Delhi illegal and unilateral actions in August 2019 and its hostile attitude toward Islamabad has deteriorated the situation in the region.

“We have repeatedly said that onus lies on India to take necessary steps for an environment conducive for constructive dialogue,” he said.

In August 5, 2019, the Indian government revoked the special autonomous status of the Muslim majority region of Jammu and Kashmir and divided it into union territory.

New Delhi also imposed restrictions and arrested hundreds Kashmiris over protest against the Indian government actions which they called against the UN Security Council resolutions.

Despite passing seven decades of the UN Security Council several resolutions to give right to the Kashmiri people to decide about their future but India didn’t ready to give them their right of self-determination as India fear that  the majority of Kashmir will decide to leave New Delhi and join Pakistan.