Sharif said the Kashmir problem is the most persistent failure of the United Nations and that the world body must establish its relevance. If Pakistan wants to give free tourism to some MPs, then it is its independent right. “It is a bilateral issue”, the paper quoted Minister of State for External Affairs M.J. Akbar as telling ANI news agency. She said former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had also wanted to find some solution to Kashmir and wished to go to Pakistan but could not go there “for whatever reasons”.
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Home Minister of India, Rajnath Singh, is likely to lead the all-party delegation which will visit Jammu and Kashmir on September 3 even as the state continues to be on edge.
Jammu and Kashmir Sharanarthi Action Committee, an organisation representing the displaced people of the PoK, has been maintaining that the package should not be seen as final settlement as Rs 9,200 crore was required to settle all of them. The UN, for example, has asked India to protec human rights in Kashmir but has rarely asked Pakistan to do the same in Balochistan.
Pakistan on Saturday made a decision to escalate its diplomatic lobbying on Kashmir, with 22 parliamentarians to go as special envoys to various countries to apprise them about the “brutalities and human rights abuses committed by Indian forces” in Jammu and Kashmir. “Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI), which is the second largest party in the country, is totally absent from the list of envoys”, it added.
Sharif stepped up Pakistan’s diplomatic offensive against India and said he has chose to send the parliamentarians for highlighting the Kashmir issue in different parts of the World.
The displaced people can cast their votes in Lok Sabha polls but not in the elections to Jammu and Kashmir assembly.
In an unexpected statement, India’s former spymaster has said that Burhan Wani (a Kashmiri separatist killed by Indian security forces last month) was different, popular and icon for the people of Kashmir.
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Since then, Pakistan has been using its diplomatic platforms to apprise other nations about the unrest.
