Needs elaboration

THE nation may not dispute Mian Nawaz Sharif's commitment to the Kashmir cause, but would definitely like to know some of the details of his plan that, he says, could have resolved the lingering dispute in accordance with UN Resolutions, had General Musharraf not come in the way and toppled his government in October 1999. AJK President Raja Muhammad Zulqarnain, who called on the PML(N) Quaid in Lahore on Sunday, must have been pleased to hear from him that his party would continue to extend political, diplomatic and moral support to the Kashmiris living across the Line of Control at every forum. But the hospitality given to him at the Raiwind Estate might have restrained him from asking his host to elaborate his claim in the backdrop of the softening of his stance towards India. This became evident when he suggested in an interview with an Indian television channel, soon after the assumption of power by the present regime, that Islamabad should unilaterally abolish the mandatory visa requirement for Indians who wanted to visit Pakistan, whether New Delhi reciprocated the gesture or not.