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.
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Pakistan was on Monday urged by a leading newspaper not to sour its “already precarious relationship” with India by making controversial statements on Kashmir.
In response to the statement by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, that “the whole of Jammu & Kashmir belongs to India and Kashmir will never become part of Pakistan”, Pakistan’s Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz said, “Such a verdict on the future of Kashmir can only be given by the people of Kashmir and not by the External Affairs Minister of India”.
In a late-night statement, Mr Aziz said the UN Security Council had promised the Kashmiris right to determine their own future.
On the other hand, in a strong attack on Sharif, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on July 23 told him that his dream of J&K becoming a part of his country “will not be realised even at the end of eternity”.
Clashes had broken out between protesters and security forces after Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani and his two associated were killed in an encounter with security forces on 8th July.
He urged the UN, International Community and the Human Rights Organizations to play their role in stopping the Indian atrocities in the Indian Occupied Kashmir against innocent Kashmiris. “Pakistan’s official stance on Kashmir is that it extends all-out moral support to Kashmiris’ struggle for freedom, and will continue to raise its voice for their right to self- determination at every platform”.
“We do not need any third party to improve ties with Kashmir”.
Swaraj on Saturday said Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif must understand that “Kashmir can never become a part of Pakistan”.
Meanwhile, a young man wounded by gunfire from Indian troops two weeks ago died on Sunday in a hospital in Srinagar, the region’s main city, police said.
“I have asked the security forces to exercise maximum restraint”.
The chief minister regretted that the political process started by her father and Vajpayee was not taken forward and held politicians responsible for stalling the peace process in the state.
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“It could only happen through talks or war”.
