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Islamabad Considers Kashmir As An Unfinished Agenda Of The Partition: Pakistan President

Islamabad Considers Kashmir As An Unfinished Agenda Of The Partition: Pakistan President
Pakistan candidate for the upcoming presidential election of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-N (PMLN), Mamnoon Hussain arrives to submits his nomination paper at the High Court in Islamabad on July 24, 2013. Pakistan's Supreme Court on July 24 revised the date for the presidential election, asking the election commission to hold it on July 30 instead of August 6. The court made the order as many of the lawmakers who will elect a replacement for President Asif Ali Zardari will be paying pilgrimages or offering special prayers on August 6 for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which ends a few days later. AFP PHOTO /AAMIR QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Pakistan candidate for the upcoming presidential election of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-N (PMLN), Mamnoon Hussain arrives to submits his nomination paper at the High Court in Islamabad on July 24, 2013. Pakistan's Supreme Court on July 24 revised the date for the presidential election, asking the election commission to hold it on July 30 instead of August 6. The court made the order as many of the lawmakers who will elect a replacement for President Asif Ali Zardari will be paying pilgrimages or offering special prayers on August 6 for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which ends a few days later. AFP PHOTO /AAMIR QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)

ISLAMABAD -- Asserting that Pakistan considered Kashmir as an unfinished agenda of the partition of the subcontinent, President Mamnoon Hussain said he will continue supporting Kashmiri people.

The President said this while talking to a delegation of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) leaders which called on him and reiterated that Islamabad would continue to adhere to the principled stand of the right of self-determination of Kashmiri people which is the basis of its foreign policy'.

He asserted that Kashmir is a 'Muslim majority' area and the efforts underway for turning the majority into a minority there would 'never be successful'.

He also condemned the attack on the terrorist attack on the airbase in Pathankot and maintained that Pakistan is against all kind of terrorism.

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