“I still remember President (Bill) Clinton’s promise that United States will play its role to help out in resolving bilateral disputes and issues between Pakistan and India”, Sharif said, according to the release.
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Earlier, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif told the UN General Assembly that India was carrying out an unprecedented arms build-up in the region.
India should understand that it’s claim of accusing Pakistan being a terrorist state has no takers, as all those movements which India brands as terrorist movements, are offshoots of Afghan Jihad, which was initiated, supported and organised by world community. Recent statement of Indian Prime Minister was yet another proof of Indian involvement in terrorism and terror financing in Pakistan aimed at destabilizing the country.
Yoga guru, Baba Ramdev on Thursday, opined that in order to achieve peace in India, the country must eliminate Pakistan sponsored terrorist camps in PoK.
Pakistan official Nafees Zakaria said the entire nation was ready to defend the country in case of any attack by India after the Uri incident.
Expressing disappointment over Sharif’s UNGA statement, Tharoor pointed out that he is the same man who had welcomed PM Modi on his birthday in Pakistan. Pakistan denies sending fighters into Indian-administered Kashmir.
“They are essential to resolve our differences, especially the Jammu and Kashmir dispute, and to avert the danger of any escalation”, Sharif said during the UNGA.
India emphasised that Pakistan had made false promises on combating terrorism over and over again, to it and to the global community. Two of their three wars since independence from Britain have been fought over the region.
A picture of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Muzaffar Wani is held up during a rally condemning the violence in Kashmir in Islamabad on July 24.
“It is the Pakistani establishment that could safely hide Osama Bin Laden within walking distance of their own military establishment”.
At a time when tensions are mounting between the neighbours, Sharif insisted that “confrontation should not be our destiny in South Asia”. He added that Islamabad would fully support Kashmir’s independence from India.
First secretary to the Indian permanent mission to the UN Eenam Gambhir referred to Sharif’s speech as a “long tirade”.
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About Pakistan submitting a dossier against India to the UN, Swarup said there was no mention of such thing in the read-out given by the Secretary General’s Office.
