“While welcoming any UN team that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights may wish to send to AJK (Azad Jammu and Kashmir), we can not accept equating the rampant human rights violations in IOK (Indian Occupied Kashmir) with the situation in AJK”, Zakaria said. “Prime Minister was sufficiently moved by these messages of gratitude to share it with the people of India in his Independence Day address”.
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It has hailed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for highlighting the Balochistan issue during his speech delivered on India’s Independence Day on 15 August.
“It is the violation of the UN Charter…”
On denial of permission by the Indian government to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) to visit J&K, New Delhi said that it has been constructively engaged with the UN body to project a “correct picture” of the state.No decision has been taken so far on India’s level of participation at the Saarc finance ministers meet in Islamabad, the MEA said.
Asking the Indian government to respond positively to Pakistan’s invitation for talks on Kashmir, it said, “Indian foreign secretary should respond positively to Pakistan’s invitation.
“Pakistan not allowing United Nations human rights team to visit PoK is I think a message in itself”, he added.
Accepting Chaudhry’s invite, Jaishankar in his reply stated that the talks should focus on five aspects of terrorism. Pakistan’s record of cross-border terrorism and infiltration is at the heart of the problems in the region today.
On Indian Prime Minister’s statement, Zehri said that there was a huge difference between the situation in Kashmir and Balochistan.
“Foreign Secretary also said that he looks forward to discussing with his counterpart the earliest possible vacation of Pakistan’s illegal occupation of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir”, the spokesperson said.
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During his speech, Modi accused Pakistan of supporting and glorifying terrorism, while calling on Islamabad to worry about its affairs instead of interfering in internal matters of other countries. “They learnt nothing from the defeat of 1971 and continued to practise the same policy of repression and are now targeting the Baloch nationalists”, Inu said.
