Rejecting any third party intervention on Kashmir, Rajnath Singh asked Pakistan not to interfere in India’s internal affairs.
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It said that raising slogans “that sour Pakistan’s already precarious relationship with its neighbour (India) is not a solution that could work in either short or long run”.
A day after India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said Kashmir can never become part of Pakistan, Prime Minister’s Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz responded on Sunday, saying that only Kashmiris could decide their future.
Mr Sharif said the freedom movement can not be stopped and will be successful as he prayed for the people of Kashmir suffering from the brutality of Indian forces.
“Pakistan should also refrain from giving the impression that it supports any kind of armed struggle in Kashmir as no issue on regional or worldwide level has ever truly been resolved through warfare”.
Aziz further said the world will accept the decision taken by the Kashmiri people, and it is their choice to either integrate with Pakistan or India.
He said, “Before taking flight to Srinagar Indian home minister provided a clean chit to killer forces by stating that they are exercising maxim restraint against growing Kashmiri attacks and therefore his visit can deliver nothing but encouragements to mass killers in uniform”.
In response to this, Aziz said, “India can not ignore the fact that over 200,000 Kashmiris participated in the funeral prayers of Burhan Muzaffar Wani in 50 different locations throughout Kashmir despite strict curfew clamped in the Valley, which still continues 15 days after Wani’s killing on 8 July 2016”. “This should stop”, Singh said.
Swaraj had also disagreed with Pakistan terming Burhan Wani, a Hizbul Mujahideen separatist commander, as a martyr and stated Wani was a wanted terrorist.
HM is one of several groups that for decades have been fighting around half a million Indian troops deployed in the region, calling for independence for Kashmir or a merger with Pakistan.
Singh held a series of meetings with government officials and pro-India leaders in a bid to soothe frayed nerves after the more than four dozen people have been killed in clashes between security forces and civilian protesters.
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“The forces have crossed all the limits by killing more than 50 innocent young Kashmiris, crippling for lifetime more than 4,000 people and blinding over 200 people including minors”.
