He maintained that Kashmir was on the United Nation’s agenda and India had accepted Kashmir as a dispute in Shimla agreement also.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to visit Islamabad for the SAARC summit. Swarup had on Thursday also clearly said that the Home Minister was going for a multilateral SAARC event and there will not be any bilateral meeting.
The Home Minister had also voiced concern over the new threats of terrorism and violence to South Asia especially and asked SAARC countries to chalk out strategies to check radical groups and extremist ideologies. He said the march was a message for the Pakistani and Indian rulers that the talks of friendship were not acceptable in any case.
Two soldiers and two suspected rebels were killed overnight in a gunbattle in Indian-administered Kashmir near the disputed territory’s de facto border with Pakistan, the Indian army said Saturday.
Mr Singh will be accompanied by Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi and senior officers of the Ministry.
Kashmir, the Himalayan region divided between India and Pakistan, is claimed by both in full. Pakistan commemorates its Independence Day on August 14.
India accuses Pakistan of backing an armed Islamist insurgency in Indian Kashmir, something Pakistan denies, though it admits to extending moral, political and diplomatic support to the Kashmiri people. “This is not a hate forum, we share stories”, Parrey said.
Indian forces have killed more than 50 people in Kashmir over the past two weeks to curb a rapidly escalating protest against the extrajudicial killing of a Kashmiri leader, Burhan Wani.
Qari Yaqoob Sheikh of Jamaatud Dawa went as far as calling India the second biggest terrorist country after America.
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The former ambassador said he knew Aziz was talking about him because another minister had attacked Haqqani by name with similar claims, and because government officials were “looking for scapegoats to divert attention from criticism at home”.
