Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Iyad Ameen Madani, left, and adviser to the Pakistani Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz, arrive for a press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016.
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Endorsing Narendra Modi’s remarks made by on the human rights violation in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, former Afghan president Hamid Karzai on Sunday said the assertion made by the Indian Prime Minister is an aspiration for all.
Speaking at the foreign correspondent’s club in Delhi, FS Jaishankar said that “Looking at the neighbourhood, we clearly face a unique challenge in respect to one country which is Pakistan”. Swarup made clear that New Delhi would never allow Islamabad to encourage terrorists to involve in anti-India activities and create trouble in Kashmir. From 1999 onwards, when the Lahore declaration was signed between Prime Ministers Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Nawaz Sharif, the invoking of the UN Security Council resolutions has been used sparingly, that too in rhetoric.
He said the peace would return to Jammu and Kashmir in particular and south Asian region in general only after the Kashmir issue is treated as a “political issue” and India and Pakistan initiate peace talks to resolve it “permanently”.
Kaleem Kawaja, the Executive Director of the Association said that the Association opposes the demands for freedom from India of those Kashmiris who are holding protests or throwing stones as it considers the state of Jammu & Kashmir a part of India. “And we expect that you become the voice of Baloch genocide, war crimes in Balochistan, human rights violation in global forums and become the voice of those sisters whose brothers are missing”, Karima said in a video message. On August 15, Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry wrote a letter to his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar inviting him for a visit to Islamabad for dedicated talks on Kashmir issue in the wake of recent unrest in the valley.
The Prime Minister called for efforts to implement the decades-old UN Security Council resolutions providing a framework for the settlement of Kashmir dispute through a plebiscite. At least 67 people have been killed and over 4,000 injured in clashes with security forces since then.
Pakistan stuck to its position that the Kashmir issue needs to be discussed.
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Since July 8, when the present uprising was triggered by the killing of a Kashmiri militant commander Burhan Muzaffar Wani by Indian forces, over 6,000 people have been hospitalized, according to government figures. The crimes being perpetrated in Indian-occupied Kashmir have become too blatant for the United Nations to ignore altogether so it is trying to distract from that by pretending the issue is one of India-Pakistan rivalry or can be compared to what is happening in AJK.
