Pakistani ambassador to Nepal, Zameer Akram, has said the Bhutanese refugee problem should be taken to the international forum if bilateral efforts do not yield results.

”The Bhutanese refugee crisis should be settled as early as possible through bilateral efforts. If bilateral ways fail to produce result, the problem should be internationalised,” reports quoted Akram as saying when speaking at a program in Birtmod, Jhapa district, Thursday.

105,000-plus Bhutanese refugees have been languishing in the seven different camps of Jhapa and Morang districts since last 13 years. 15 rounds of ministerial-level talks between Nepal and Bhutan have ended in indecision.

The Pakistani envoy reiterated that his country would not have any meddlesome role in Nepal’s internal affairs.

Akram dubbed the Track-2 meet on Kashmir dispute held recently in Kathmandu was the ‘first ever positive development’ in the since the onset of dispute over the Kashmir Valley. “Pakistan has taken the meeting very positively,” he said.

The December 11-13 meet organized by Pugwash, an international intermediary organisation, in which retired diplomats of Pakistan and India and the leaders of the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and the Indian Administered Kashmir had participated, had ended with a conclusion to continue the efforts to resolve the deadlock through dialogue.