Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday raised the issue of Kashmir and accused India of human rights violations in the region during his address at the 71st UN General Assembly (UNGA) in NY. The 21-year-old Hizb-Ul-Mujahideen terrorist was an acknowledged terrorist, who caused constant upheaval by his illicit activities in Kashmir. Eenam Gambhir, First Secretary in the Permanent Mission to the United Nations, said: “The worst violation of human rights is terrorism”. Foreign minister Sushma Swaraj – who speaks on Monday – is also expected to give a “befitting” reply to Sharif.
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Bilateral ties between the South Asian neighbours received another setback when a militant attack in Indian Kashmir on Sunday killed 18 soldiers.
He added the Pakistani leadership should respect the right to self determination of the Baloch people.
India on Thursday said it had told Pakistan that infiltration of heavily armed terrorists from across the border can not take place without the “active and collaborative support of Pakistani security forces”.
“The land of Taxila is now host to the Ivy League of terrorism”. “The effect of its toxic curriculum is felt across the globe”, she said. The talks of peace between the countries have more often than not, been futile.
Pakistan’s decision to close airspace over the country’s northern areas and flights by Pakistan Air Force (PAF) fighter planes on Wednesday fuelled rumours that the armed forces were preparing for a possible Indian attack.
Indian Minister of State for External Affairs M.J. Akbar on Thursday also expressed surprise over PM Nawaz Sharif’s reference to Burhan Wani as a “young leader” during his UNGA address a day earlier. This was in response to Sharif’s claims that Pakistan had “gone the extra mile and repeatedly offered dialogue”.MJ Akbar also commented that Pakistan wants dialogue while “holding a gun in its hand”. “Pakistan fully supports the demand of the Kashmiri people for self-determination, as promised to them by several Security Council resolutions. Over a hundred Kashmiris have been killed, hundreds, including children and infants, blinded by shotgun pellets and over six thousand unarmed civilians injured over the past two months”, he said. “We have always been ready for a dialogue, but we will not succumb to blackmail tactics (from) the government in Islamabad that seems eager to use terrorists and terrorism”. “When practised as an instrument of state policy it is a war crime”.
Asked if India was preparing any fresh dossier on Pakistan’s involvement in terrorist activities, Swarup said: “We don’t need a dossier; the whole world is aware of Pakistan’s role in promoting terror”.
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He said Pakistan and its leaders are committing crimes against the residents of Kashmir, demanding that the country stop “exporting terror and let its neighbours live in peace”.
