“The onus is now on Pakistan to act against terror groups which find safe havens and all types of support for cross border terror, Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Vikas Swarup said at a press briefing in the national capital”.
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“When asked about a possible rethink on India-Pakistan’s Indus Waters Treaty in the wake of recent events, Swarup said”, “For any treaty to work, there is need for mutual trust and cooperation”.
Sharif, while on the topic of terrorism, said: “My country has been the principal victim of terrorism, including that supported, sponsored and financed from overseas. The world also knows that Pakistan has indulged in ethnic cleansing of its own people”, he said.
India on Thursday responded to Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s remarks at the United Nations General Assembly in NY, and called it a terrorist state, while accusing Islamabad of using terrorism as an “instrument of state policy”, PTI reported.
The Prime Minister also extended support to the demands of Kashmiri people for self determination and called on the UN Security Council to hold free and fair plebiscite.
Claiming that Pakistan “neither wants, nor is engaged in an arms race with India”, Sharif said, “We have consistently urged the conclusion of bilateral arms control and disarmament measures between Pakistan and India to prevent conflict and avoid wasteful military expenditures”.
Wani is a “self-declared commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen”, Akbar said.
India, in its right to reply during the General Debate at United Nations, said Pakistan has “democracy deficit”. “Peace between India and Pakistan can not be finally achieved without resolution to the Kashmir dispute”. He is hailing a terrorist, who loved using social media to publicize pictures of him as a gun toting, bearded, fatigue wearing commando.
India today said it hopes that the bill to designate Pakistan as a terrorist state by two United States lawmakers will be treated with utmost seriousness. The prime minister has said the guilty will be punished and I am quite sure action will be done.
Sharif said about the absence of dialogues between the two countries: “India posed unacceptable pre-conditions to engage in dialogue”.
“The cold-blooded murder of Burhan Wani sparked widespread and unprecedented protests across Kashmir, which was spontaneous and indigenous and was irrefutable evidence of the Kashmiri peoples rejection of Indian occupation”, Faisal told the General Assembly.
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India’s Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar had on Wednesday summoned Pakistan’s High Commissioner Abdul Basit for talks and according to Swarup, Basit was apprised of the Uri attack and the earlier attacks on the Indian soil as well.
