“It is absolutely a flagrant violation of the position that India has consistently taken, that all issues with Pakistan will be sorted bilaterally”, Tewari said.
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Due to trouble in Kashmir, the Amarnath yatra continued to be suspended for the second consecutive day, with no pilgrims being allowed from Jammu to move towards the valley. Calling its reference to Kashmir as an “attempt at misuse” of the United Nations platform, India’s Permanent Representative Syed Akbaruddin said on Thursday, “The attempt came from Pakistan, a country that covets the territory of others; a country that uses terrorism as state policy towards that misguided end; a country that extols the virtues of terrorists and that provides sanctuary to UN-designated terrorists”.
She accused India of human rights violations in Kashmir and of carrying out an “extra-judicial killing of a person” she described as a “Kashmiri leader”. “Terrorism is terrorism and no amount of justification on part of Pakiatan is going to change that”, he said.
Islamabad summoned New Delhi’s envoy on Monday and conveyed Pakistan’s “serious concern” over the recent violence. “The grenade attack was followed by firing also”, he said.
“We are dismayed at the continued attempts by Pakistan to interfere in our internal matters, where we reiterate, Pakistan or any other external party has no locus standi”, he added.
Prime Minister Sharif said that Kashmiris will get their right to self-determination for which the whole Pakistani nation is standing behind them. “No locus standi and we don’t need any gratis advice from anyone”, he retorted.
Taking strong umbrage to Pakistan declaring July 19 as “black day” to express solidarity with Kashmiri people over killing of Burhan Wani, India today asked it to desist from further interfering in its internal affairs and destabilising the situation in the region through support to terrorism and other subversive acts.
There was no major clash was reported on Thursday from anywhere in Kashmir.Since last Saturday, the uneasy calm prevailed with normal life remaining disrupted.
The dead include a policeman.
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Yaripora area of Kulgam in south Kashmir saw a grenade attack followed by firing on a police station during stone-pelting, resulting in injuries to five police personnel, the official said. In this connection, such a remote-controlled unmanned (rpt) unmanned aerial vehicle was briefly flown today in the deserted Lal Chowk, nerve centre of capital Srinagar.
