Srinagar: Ruling out third-party mediation on the Kashmir issue, the newly elected chief of Jamaat-e- Islami Syed Nazir Ahmad Kashani on July 29 said India and Pakistan were mature enough to resolve the long-pending dispute through dialogue involving Kashmiris too.

"India and Pakistan should be capable of resolving their outstanding issues bilaterally. If we talk in the context of the Kashmir issue, Kashmiri people have to be included," Kashani told reporters a day after being elected to the top post of Jamaat for a three-year term.

Kashani said if the two governments could run such vast countries, they must be mature enough to realise that durable peace in the region could only be achieved when the two sides talk without any outside intervention to resolve their disputes.

"When a third party intervenes, the parties to the dispute do not conduct the dialogue with sincerity and hence the grouses remain even after a solution is hammered out by whatever means," he said.

On the thaw in Indo-Pakistan ties, Kashani welcomed the developments, saying, "We support all the moves that would put an end to the bloodshed and Human Rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir."

New Delhi and Islamabad should know that peace and prosperity of the entire South Asian region was dependent on the relations between them, he said.

"India, Pakistan and the entire international community have accepted Kashmir as a disputed territory. The two South Asian neighbours should initiate a dialogue involving Kashmiris for durable peace in the region," he added.

PTI