Monday, April 4 2005 17:29 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Islamabad: Departing from Pakistan's long-held stand, the ruling party PML-Q (Pakistan Muslim League Quaid-e-Azam) has said that clinging to the 60 year-old UN resolutions to resolve Kashmir issue would be a "hypocrisy" and "wastage of time".

Bold decisions were required to resolve contentious issues and such an approach alone would ensure peace in the South Asian region, PML-Q President and former Prime Minister Shujaat Hussain told a group of senior editors and columnist briefing them on his recent visit to India heading a ten-member Parliamentary delegation.

Explaining Shujaat's view on Kashmir, party Secretary Mushahid Hussain, who was also present and was part of the delegation, said the party president believed that clinging to the 60-year old United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution as the basis to resolve Kashmir would be wasting time.

"We must take realities into consideration and give up this politics of hypocrisy and put an end to rhetoric. Six decades have passed and the two sides have not moved an inch on the core issue of Kashmir," Mushahid was quoted as saying by the 'The News' daily.

Mushahid, who was asked by Shujaat Hussain to brief on the delegation's visit, said the traditional Pakistani stance was "Kashmir first and other issues later" but now it has been amended to "Kashmir plus other issues."