Pakistani Information and Broadcasting Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed Friday said that Pakistan wants to live peacefully with India provided New Delhi solves the Kashmir problem, the official Associated Press of Pakistan reported from Islamabad.

"India should give positive response to Pakistan's sincere and earnest desire for the early peaceful settlement of Kashmir issue according to the aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir," the minister said while addressing a ceremony held in Pakistan-held Kashmir on Friday evening.

Sheikh Rashid reiterated Pakistan's firm, principled and unequivocal stance on the Kashmir issue, declaring that no any solution of Kashmir dispute sans the wishes of Kashmiri people would be acceptable to Pakistan.

Since Kashmiris are the prime party to the dispute, the true objectives of the dialogue, which the world community was expecting, would not be achieved unless Kashmiris were involved inthe talks, he said.

President Pervez Musharraf has categorically declared that the basic issue is Kashmir issue, which needs to be resolved without further delay, Sheikh Rashid said.

The minister said that Kashmir issue would not be allowed to bethrown in the cold storage.

Source:Xinhua