There is no support for demand of 'independent Kashmir': Pak PM Abbasi

He also seemed to come out in support of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif and said that most of Pakistan does not agree with Sharif's disqualification by the Supreme Court.

Asserting that ties between India and Pakistan cannot improve till the Kashmir issue is resolved, Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said that there is no support for the idea of "independent Kashmir".

He said that no "quantum change" is possible in the ties between the two neighbours, adding that talks were the only way forward, said a PTI report.

Abbasi said that the idea of independent has often been floated, but there was "no reality" in it.

"There is no support for the demand for independent Kashmir," he was quoted by a PTI report as saying.

He also seemed to come out in support of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif and said that most of Pakistan does not agree with Sharif's disqualification by the Supreme Court.

At a conference on 'Future of Pakistan 2017' in London, Abbasi also spoke on a range of other issues like Afghanistan and civil-military ties.

He said that US-Pakistan relations cannot be looked at only from the Afghanistan point of view.

OneIndia News with PTI inputs