ADDRESSING a news conference in New Delhi on Saturday, Indian External Affairs Minister Shushma Swaraj reacted strongly to the remarks made by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at a public gathering in Muzaffarabad in which he said that Kashmir will soon become part of Pakistan.
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By uttering these words, in fact, the prime minister is challenging the authority of India and inviting more trouble not only for Pakistan but Kashmiris also, it said.
The adviser said that it is high time that India allowed the people of Jammu and Kashmir to exercise this right through a free and fair United Nations supervised plebiscite.
The Congress leader from Karnataka said the people of India wereunited to condemn such statement.
Resentment among Kashmiri youths is a major cause of unrest in the Indian-occupied Kashmir, according to the Editorial Board of influential USA newspaper, the New York Times, which has criticised the powers given to the Indian troops under the Armed Forces Special Power Act, (AFSPA).
Aziz assured the people of Kashmir that the government and the people of Pakistan remain firmly committed in their moral, diplomatic and political support to the Kashmiris’ indigenous movement for self-determination and resolution of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the relevant UN Security Council Resolutions on Kashmir.
Street clashes between those protesting Wani’s killing and the security forces have left over 45 people dead and hundreds injured.
Saeed, the mastermind of the horrific Mumbai attacks, announced Sunday night that his team will seek permission to go to Kashmir, which has been on a boil for more than two weeks following Wani’s encounter.
Singh accused Pakistan of inflaming violence in the Muslim-majority region after Islamabad announced a “black day” to show solidarity with Kashmir residents living under Indian rule.
India has failed to suppress Kashmiris’ voice in the past and it will meet the same fate in future as well.
India is particularly not happy with Pakistan calling for a “black day” last week to protest India’s handling of the demonstrations. “Pakistan will never be able to make it a terror-hell for Kashmiris”.
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“There is a significant part of Pakistan occupied Kashmir known as Aksai Chin that has been given over to China and why has the Prime Minister forgotten to name that part I really wonder”.
