He said that India also did not give Kashmiris their right to self-determination.
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Modi has stressed the need to clean up India since storming to power in 2014 and has repeatedly urged every household to have a toilet to end the spread of disease and illnesses such as diarrhoea.
“Its leaders are seen to be supporting Pakistan.It is obvious that the country is supporting Modi on his comments on Balochistan and PoK”, Singh said.
Expressing his serious concerns over the current situation in IHK, the chairman of the Kashmir Council, EU, said that the people in IHK were even being deprived of holding peaceful demonstrations.
Aziz further added that India must recognise the core issue of Kashmir which cannot be solved through bullets, but requires a political solution.
Yesterday’s attacks in Kashmir coincided with the annual Independence Day speech by Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, from the ramparts of the Red Fort in Delhi.
“At this time they include a stoppage of Pakistani support for cross-border terrorism, infiltration of terrorists like Bahadur Ali, incitement to violence and terrorism across the border, parading of internationally recognized terrorists like Hafiz Saeed and Syed Salahuddin, and honest followup on the Mumbai attack trial and the Pathankot attack investigation in Pakistan”, Swarup stated.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s I-Day speech reference to Balochistan, PoK and Gilgit-Baltistan is being both hailed and criticised as a departure from India’s response so far to Pakistan’s unrelenting propaganda on the Kashmir issue. What kind of people glorify terrorists?
“I don’t know what Pakistan is doing”.
The AFP news agency quoted a CRPF spokesman as saying that 10 officers were wounded in the attacks.
He said nine others were wounded with three, including two local policemen, in a critical condition.
“The freedom of Kashmir is our duty and also a historical debt which must be cleared by the rulers (of Pakistan) or else history will never forgive them”, the JI leader said.
Analysts said the sharp exchange marked an escalation in the long-running rivalry between the countries.
The CPI (M) denounced Modi for blaming Pakistan for the Kashmir problem instead of finding solutions to it.
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He strongly backed the fight against inflation, endorsing a 4 percent target, within a range of 2 percentage points either way, agreed with Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan. He went on to thank all political parties for clearing earlier this month the long-awaited Goods and Services Tax (GST) bill, which had been blocked by the opposition since he came to power in 2014.
