NEW DELHI: In his speech at the 80th session of the UN General Assembly, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday extended what he called his “most sincere and serious” offer of a renewed diplomatic engagement with India, proposing a “composite, comprehensive and result-oriented dialogue” to resolve all outstanding issues even as he launched a sharp critique of New Delhi’s stance on Kashmir.

Sharif recalled the decades-old Composite Dialogue framework, originally initiated in 2003 under General Pervez Musharraf’s military regime. The eight-point dialogue process, which covered contentious issues including Kashmir, trade, and counter-terrorism, was suspended following the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. Despite intermittent backchannel talks, formal negotiations have not resumed.

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