Pak PM Imran Khan calls for dialogue over Kashmir issue

ISLAMABAD: Pakistanprimeminister Imran Khan on Monday condemned what he described as a “new cycle of killings” in Kashmir and said the solution to the “Kashmir dispute” lay in dialogue.

Khan’s ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-insaf party is keen to make progress in relations with India and other neighbours, but, in India’s case, wants to do this without altering its rigid stance on Kashmir, say analysts. The lack of dialogue between the two countries comes at a time when Pakistan is facing diplomatic isolation from neighbours and a cold shoulder from allies such as Saudi Arabia, who have turned down requests to help Islamabad tide over its economic problems. DASUYA(HOSHIARPUR): Father Kuriakose Kattuthara, a key witness in the Kerala nun rape case who testified against accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal, was on Monday found dead under mysterious circumstances at Dasuya in Hoshiarpur district.

The body of Kattuthara, 62, a native of Allepy in Kerala, was found in his room on the premises of St Mary’s Church here this morning by his cook around 9 am. The cook, identified as Madan, knocked at priest’s door for the breakfast but he didn’t respond. Madan then informed Sister Lisabeth, principal of the St Paul Convent School, about it.

“When we broke opened the door, we found father lying on his bed. We immediately took him to the civil hospital, where he was declared brought dead,” said Sister Lisabeth said. “There was vomit in the room and some tablets were found near the bed,”