Khurshid had yesterday accused Modi of “ruining” India’s case on PoK by raking up the issue of Balochistan in his Independence Day address. India has been a victim of this Pakistani design for several decades.
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It said while the main opposition party offered support to Modi on his reference to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Balochistan in an all-party meeting on August 12, its leaders were outside seen offering support to Pakistan. “For us Modi’s remarks are not less than a confessional statement of his country’s meddling in Balochistan”.
More than 68,000 people have been killed since rebel groups began fighting Indian forces in 1989 and in a subsequent Indian military crackdown. “It requires a political solution, through serious negotiations between India and Pakistan”, Sartaj Aziz said.
Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi on Tuesday urged Pakistan to seriously have a rethink over its policies, adding that talks and terror strikes on India can’t go hand-in-hand. Telephone and internet services have been cut off intermittently, except for those using the state-run BSNL postpaid connections.
The army also said it had foiled an infiltration attempt from Pakistan into North Kashmir, killing three militants.
“Our position on Kashmir has not changed”. He tried to bring the world’s attention on the situation in kashmir, even though Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Vikas Swarup has endlessly repeated that Pakistan has no locus standi on the Kashmir issue.
Pakistan also seems to have taken a step backwards in its fight on terror.
Pakistan today invited India for talks on Kashmir, saying it is the “international obligation” of both the countries to resolve the issue, a move already rejected by New Delhi which had insisted it would talk on “contemporary and relevant” issues in Indo-Pak relations. He called for resolution on the Kashmir issue and need for efforts for the same by both nations.
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“The Baloch mission and all the oppressed people of the world, still remember the decision of the Indian government when India intervened and came to the rescue of Bengali people from Pakistani brutalities in 1970s”, he said.
