Several Baloch and Indian activists held large-scale demonstrations outside the UN headquarters here while Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif addressed the UN General Assembly as they were joined by other groups demanding that it stop “exporting” terror into India.
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Sharif told the annual United Nations General Assembly Pakistan could not ignore India’s “unprecedented” arms build-up and would “take whatever measures are necessary to maintain credible deterrence”.
Swarup also refrained from answering if Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Islamabad for the Saarc summit.
Wani is a “self-declared commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen”, Akbar said. The bodies of the terrorists had Pakistan markings signalling that the attack was a cross-border terror. “We just heard a speech full of threat, bluster and what can only be described as rising immaturity and complete disregard of facts”, he said. “The Uri attack shows that terror machinery in Pakistan is still thriving”, he said, claiming that there is “irrefutable evidence” that the attack was mounted with support from Pakistani authorities.
India also strongly rejected Sharifs call for a serious and sustained bilateral dialogue without any conditions, saying that Pakistan, which seems to be run by a war machine rather than a government, wants talks with a gun in its hand.
He further stated that the pre-conditions imposed by India on any dialogue “cannot work”. “Where is the question of extra mile?” “Talks and guns don’t go together”.
M J Akbar, minister of state for India’s external affairs, joined the anti-Pakistan tirade and branded Sharif’s speech at the United Nations as “immature” and “full of threats”.
“Immediately jumping into the fray does not get you results, I am sure things are being thought out, things are being executed and we will see the results”, said the Minister of State for External Affairs. However, the Indo-Pak face off will start after Nawaz Sharif’s address on 21 September where he is all set to raise the Kashmir issue and might blame India for human rights violations in the Kashmir valley.
“Over a hundred Kashmiris have been killed”.
He added the world also knows that Pakistan has indulged in ethnic cleansing of its own people.
Following the meeting, instructions were issued to the Indian Army and the BSF to be exceptionally vigilant along the global border and the Line of Control respectively.
Asked by a reporter how India saw this campaign, Akbar said, “Very simple response”. Both India and Pakistan are significant countries in the region.
Gambhir called Pakistan a “democracy deficit country” and said the country was extending support to extremist groups, and committing “war crimes” by suppressing minorities and women and denying them basic human rights.
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The Foreign Ministry spokesperson said: “We do not need to produce a dossier”.
