NEW YORK: UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has urged India and Pakistan to resolve all outstanding issues through dialogue, as he condemned last months’s attacks in Mumbai. “They are two big neighbouring countries and they should maintain and improve their relationship through continuous composite dialogue which they have initiated, through mutual respect and understanding,” he told his year-end press conference at UN Headquarters in New York. At the same time, the secretary general said the view of the international community and the United Nations was very clear that terrorism could not be justified under any circumstances, and stressed the need for all countries to fight terrorism. Responding to a question by a Pakistani correspondent about the exacerbation of tensions in the subcontinent following the incursion by Indian warplanes into Pakistani territory and India's attempt to crush a civilian non violent disobedience movement in occupied Kashmir, Ban said there had been some periods when India and Pakistan had been at war and there were tension over some issues like Kashmir. "Peace between the two countries will have great implications not only in the sub continent, but also throughout the world," Ban added.
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