“It’s just not that our government and agencies have asserted this, we have statements on record made by a foreign country’s very high officials who have said that our neighbour has been financing instability in Pakistan from the soil of another neighbour”, he added.
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Earlier during the day, India’s prime minister accused Pakistan of fomenting trouble in the Kashmir valley, claiming there was enough evidence to prove it was fuelling unrest in the region.
Commenting on the recent terror attacks in Pakistan including in Quetta, Swarup said there was no good or bad terrorism.
The Hizbul leader categorically said: “Our base camp in liberated Azad Kashmir (read Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir – PoK) and the Kashmiri people from this side will announce the trampling of the bloody Line of Control”.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said: “The change taking place in the world between 2010 and 16 ideologically has to play a role in the valley”.
“Pakistan and China’s collaboration on the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and our reach out to Central Asian countries and connectivity to Eurasian landmass were opening new vistas of connectivity, economic opportunities and prosperity”, he said according to Foreign Office statement issued on Friday. However, he said that the percentage of miscreants, who are brainwashing the youth in the valley, is low.
He pointed out that the government is following a five point agenda to address the Kashmir issue which not only targets security concerns but includes parallel action on comprehensive development to stem discontent among the people.
Sharif also highlighted the use of pellet guns that had inflicted severe eye injuries on many Kashmiris.
Sitaram Yechury of CPI said, “Start the dialogue process with all stakeholders”. Former Union Home Minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram said that Kashmir is a unique problem that requires a unique solution.
The current situation in Kashmir, he said, was the result of the continued denial by India of the right to self-determination of the people of Jammu and Kashmir that was promised to them by the UN Security Council in relevant resolutions.
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The meeting that deliberated at length to discuss ways of cooling the prevailing tensions in the Kashmir valley, which had erupted after the killing of terrorist Burhan Wani on July 8 by security forces, was of the firm view to make efforts to win the confidence of the people. Some fear that Indian Kashmiris might not even opt to join Pakistan if given the chance, so badly has Pakistan’s economy fallen behind India’s.
