SNEHESH ALEX PHILP; Pakistan today once again sought US intervention in settling the Kashmir dispute complaining that India was hesitant whenever it wanted to talk on the vexed issue.

Speaking to accompanying Pakistani journalists after holding a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry at the Hague, on the sidelines of a two-day nuclear summit, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said the Kashmir issue should be resolved.

In comments aired on TV channels here, he said India hesitated every time Pakistan approached it for talks on Kashmir.

"We have said somebody else can also help us in resolving the issue. But India is also not in agreement on that. So how can talks proceed? How can such issues be solved? I said this is for the US also to think. When you tell us that normal relations should be there, we understand that but your role comes in also.

"If we cannot solve an issue with India bilaterally, a third power should be there to play a role in moving the dialogue forward," Sharif said.

This is not the first time that Pakistan has sought US intervention in solving the Kashmir issue.

Ahead of his meeting with US President Barack Obama in October last year, Sharif had sought US intervention to settle the Kashmir issue.

However, a senior US official had then said, "On Kashmir, our policy has not changed an iota".

US had already passed seven resolutions on the decades long Kashmir dispute.
(Agencies)