LAHORE: The Foreign Minister, Mr Zulfilcar Ali Bhutto, today [Feb 25] declared that the Jammu and Kashmir dispute, on whose settlement alone hinges the peace between India and Pakistan, could not be resolved by a blind obsession and a monologue which persisted in the fantasy of the slogan that `Kashmir is an integral part of India`.

Pakistan, he added, would make a sincere and earnest endeavour to live in peace with India but `that peace cannot be purchased on the souls and sacrifices of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, not to mention the sacrifices of the people of Pakistan`.

Mr Bhutto was asked by newsmen here to comment on the statement of the Indian Premier, Mrs Indira Gandhi, that `India`s sovereignty over Kashmir is not negotiable`. He repeatedly parrie d the probing questions but when pressed further he said that since the issue was of vital importance, Pakistan, too, should express her views on it.

Stating that the Kashmir dispute is rooted in human tragedy and human aspirations and lies at the heart of Indo-Pakistan differences, Mr Bhutto said the entire world knew that Kashmir was not a part of India. Its future had still to be determined. `Its people cry for that determination and world conscience supports that aspiration.` Correspondent [Meanwhile, as reported by agencies from Lahore,] Mian Tufail Mohammad, Amir Jamaati-Islami, West Pakistan, today made a fervent appeal to President Ayub Khan to convene a conference of the `real representatives of public opinion` to consider the crucial and far-reaching problems confronting the nation today.

In a Press statement issued here, Mian Tufail regretted that in almost all the Muslim countries the Government and the people were wasting their energies and resources in defeating each other instead of solving their problems and contending the common enemy.