Pakistan on Tuesday called upon the United States particularly, which is pressing so responsibly for peace in the Middle East, to also invest its political capital in trying to help seek an accommodation on Kashmir. "Such an accommodation would not only be just for the people of Kashmir but would be critical for peace in the region," Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on a visit to New York for a UN session on Pakistan's devastating floods. He affirmed that "terrorism... has fueled and thrived on blatant examples of social and political injustice." Qureshi also insisted that Pakistan's government wanted peace with India. "The occupation cannot continue. The rights of the Kashmiri people cannot continue to be denied," Qureshi said at the Council on Foreign Relations, a think-tank, which was quoted by Geo Television Network of Pakistan.
