Islamabad: Observing that it will approach the resumption of dialogue with India with utmost sincerity and an open mind, Pakistan has hoped that the planned future round of talks would prove "decisive" in settling all disputes, including Kashmir.

"We hope that future round of negotiations, when it materialises, would prove decisive in resolving all bilateral problems," Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Riaz Khokhar told the Geneva Forum of Disarmament on May 23.

Pakistan approached the resumption of dialogue with India with "utmost sincerity and an open mind" and expects the same from India, Kokhar was quoted saying.

Khokhar accused India of "prevaricating" the right of self determination to Kashmiris and said that Pakistan was convinced that the "dispute" should be resolved peacefully as "there is no alternative to negotiations.

Equally clear, he said is the fact that viable peace would "continue to elude South Asia without a just settlement of this dispute in accordance with the aspirations of the Kashmiri people".

Referring to the new peace process between India and Pakistan, he said that there was a "stirring of a positive change" in New Delhi.

"We would like to count on its irreversibility since military brinkmanship is not a viable instrument of policy least of all in a nuclear theatre," he added.

PTI