Jammu Tawi, March 6 -- External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has said that Pakistan vacating Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) would resolve the Kashmir issue in its entirety. The Minister was responding to a question from a member of the audience at the Chatham House, the London-based thinktank. The question was about whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi could use his relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump to "solve" the Kashmir issue.

"Removing Article 370 was step number one," Jaishankar said, referring to the controversial changes in the special status of Jammu and Kashmir made by the government in August 2019.

"Then restoring growth and economic activity and social justice in Kashmir was step number two," the Min...