Social media voices have backed India after Pakistan’s Prime Minister raised the Kashmir issue at the UN General Assembly even as a former top Pakistani diplomat tweeted that Nawaz Sharif’s speech “plays well at home” but is “not taken seriously by the rest of the world”.
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The dossiers Pakistan handed over to the UN Secretary-General contained details such as alleged “Indian interference and support for terrorism in Baluchistan and Karachi as well as its security and intelligence agencies’ link with the Tehrike-e-Taliban especially in FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas)”.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj addressing the United Nations General Assembly today said that India is open to having a dialogue with Pakistan on all issues, but emphatically stated that talks and terror can not go together.
The emphasis on Pakistan-occupied Kashmir marks a new move by India, to move the debate over the Kashmir dispute to discuss PoK rather than the Kashmir Valley. “This will resolve all the problems”, she said.
He said that India should implement a Security Council resolution that wanted a plebiscite in Kashmir and that it would be at the top of the list in any discussions with India. Mr Aziz rejected the allegation of supporting terrorists in India and said Pakistan is engaged in a massive military operation against terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.
Former foreign secretary Lalit Mansingh said India seemed to have decided that “if Pakistan does not want talks, then India will wait for better circumstances”.
She spoke about Pakistan’s hand in terrorist attacks in India and that it did not punish the offenders. He said that tensions between India and Pakistan have impacted upon the good relations between the two countries and it has damaged socio-economic prospects of the two countries.
“The heart of the matter is a state that regards the use of terrorism as a legitimate instrument of statecraft”, Singh had said. “People of Jammu and Kashmir are the real representatives and without making them part of the dialogue, no dialogue process will succeed”, he said and warned if worldwide community will not act, Kashmir issue will prove disastrous for the world peace.
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Singh: The world knows that the primary reason for firing is to provide cover to terrorists crossing the border. “It needs no imagination to figure out which side initiates this exchange”.
