ISLAMABAD, AUG 17: Pakistan has warned that it will go to the United Nations (UN) if India `refused' to hold bilateral talks for the resolution of all outstanding issues including Kashmir.``First we shall try to resolve all our standing issues with India through bilateral negotiations but in case India does not agree to hold talks, we shall go to the United Nations and fight our case,'' the Nation newspaper quoted Foreign Minister Sartaj Aziz as saying recently in Karachi.
He also said that very soon Islamabad would launch an international campaign against the Indian army.
``We have mobilised the international opinion in our favour and soon an advertisement will be appearing in the western press proving that Pakistan army is not a rogue one but it is Indian army which is rogue,'' he said.
Aziz, however, expressed hope that talks with India on Kashmir would be held after a new government takes over in new Delhi following general elections next month.
He also said that the Pakistan governmentwould soon launch an international media campaign to counter an alleged similar campaign by India earlier.
Aziz claimed that the world opinion was gradually moving in Pakistan's favour and ``India will be forced to sit on a negotiating table seeking a just solution of Kashmir.''
Aziz said Pakistan would not ``compromise on anything except the just solution of Kashmir and their (Kashmiri people's) right of self-determination''
He also dismissed the contention that Pakistan had been diplomatically isolated after the Kargil crises saying, ``the ground reality is somewhat different. Though Pakistan has been misunderstood but through our strenuous efforts we have convinced the world -- the USA, UK, Saudi Arabia, China, Gulf states and many more Islamic countries which are (now) pressurising India to hold talks on Kashmir.''
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