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SINGING A DIFFERENT TUNE: As Pakistan's Foreign Minister from April 2008 to February 2011, Shah Mahmood Qureshi - seen in this file picture with External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna (left) - was at first conciliatory on Kashmir but later adopted a more rigid stand on this issue - PTI.
Days after he was designated the Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Shah Mahmood Qureshi told U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard A. Boucher that India-Pakistan relations could not be held hostage to the issue of Kashmir alone.
It is rare for a Pakistani leader to advocate, even in a closed-door meeting, that India-Pakistan ties should not viewed through the prism of Kashmir alone.
The Pakistan military and successive political establishments have consistently argued that Kashmir is the core issue between India and Pakistan, and that without a resolution of the dispute there can be no meaningful progress in ties.
Yet, after a few months in office, Mr. Qureshi too was calling Kashmir a ‘core issue.'
But in an April 2008 interaction with the U.S. diplomat, Mr. Qureshi maintained that while Pakistan should respect the concerns of the Kashmiris, its relations with India could not be held ‘hostage' to one issue.
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