Islamabad: Pakistan today (Dec 29, 2003) promised not to raise the Kashmir issue at next week's SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation) Summit in Islamabad and offered to remain "constructive and supportive" on issues relating to terrorism.

"I don't think that this issue (Kashmir) would be raised, discussed or debated at the SAARC Summit," Foreign Office spokesman Masood Khan told reporters after a meeting of the Programming Committee which consists of Joint Secretaries from the seven SAARC nations. The Committee held discussions to finalise broad agenda for the summit.

Answering questions, Khan said the Committee had not discussed any proposal to change the SAARC charter to accommodate discussions on bilateral issues like Kashmir.

Though the basic charter could be interpreted to take up contentious issues, SAARC by tradition avoided that, he said.