Islamabad: The opposition PML-N on Sunday took exception to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's description of militant groups in Jammu and Kashmir as "terrorists" and said it would raise the issue in Parliament.
"We take exception to Mr Zardari's statement in this regard," PML-N spokesman Siddique-ul-Farooq told Dawn News channel.
He said the "uprising" in Jammu and Kashmir over the past few months had proved that the movement in the Indian state is "indigenous".
Farooq said that the PML-N would raise the issue in Parliament.
In an interview to Wall Street Journal, Zardari described militant Islamic groups operating in Jammu and Kashmir as "terrorists" and said "India has never been a threat to Pakistan".
India has for long accused Pakistan of arming and funding the terrorists groups operating in Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan has denied the charge.
Farooq said UN resolutions on Kashmir, the Simla Accord and the February 23, 1999 Lahore accord signed by PML-N chief and then premier Nawaz Sharif and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee provided the "only solution" to the dragging Kashmir dispute.
"If India or Pakistan or both want to get this issue resolved, these (accords) and resolutions suggest the exact solution of the problem," he said.
The PML-N was part of the ruling coalition led by Zardari's Pakistan People's Party till August. It pulled out of the coalition after Zardari failed to deliver on several commitments to reinstate dozens of judges sacked by former President Pervez Musharraf during last year's emergency.
Chairman of the PML(N) Raja Muhammad Zafar-ul-Haq says, it has always been the stand point of Pakistan that the issue of Kashmir be resolved peacefully. The question is that the present uprising in Kashmir, the demonstrations and curfew are not a product of any violence by anybody whether it is from within Kashmir or from outside. It is the genuine local uprising.”
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