Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. File photo

Islamabad, August 14

Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Monday urged the international community to play its due role in resolving the Kashmir issue with India.“It is incumbent upon the international community to play its role in the resolution of the regional conflicts, particularly the Kashmir dispute, in conformity with the UN Resolutions on the subject with a view to ensuring durable peace in the region,” Abbasi said in his address to the nation on the occasion of Pakistan’s Independence Day.

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He said Pakistan desired to have positive and constructive relations with all countries of the world, especially with its neighbours, on the basis of sovereign equality.“The people of South Asia have suffered enormously in the last 50 years due to the festering conflicts. Until and unless those conflicts are resolved amicably, the people of the region cannot achieve prosperity and progress,” he added.Praising the freedom fighters of the country, Abbasi said, “We are greatly indebted to our ancestors for their sacrifices and we can repay that debt only by making Pakistan a free and independent country.”He noted that the recent transition of power through a democratic process was quintessential of the accelerated strengthening of democratic values in the country.Abbasi stressed on strengthening and reinforcing the state institutions so that they could play their prescribed role within the limits of law and the constitution.Asserting that a strong economy could ensure a strong defence, Abbasi said a moderate society guaranteed stability of the state, where people enjoyed all their fundamental rights and national resources were equitably and judicious distributed.Pakistan was created out of a partitioned Indian subcontinent on August 14, 1947. ANI