Meanwhile, a press release issued by the Pakistan mission to the United Nations said that during the meeting Nawaz handed over a dossier of the Indian state atrocities on the innocent Kashmiris to the United Nations secretary-general.
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Those in favor of an independent Kashmir want Pakistan and India to step aside and let the Kashmiri people decide their future.
He told Pakistani journalists in NY that India blamed Pakistan for the attack on army camp in Uri within a few hours of the incident and claimed that questions are being raised on New Delhi’s “haste”.
Pakistan Prime Minster Nawaz Sharif while addressing the annual United Nations General Assembly has said that Pakistan can not ignore India’s “unprecedented” arms build-up and that Pakistan would “take all necessary measures to maintain credible deterrence”.
Meanwhile, a leading Pakistani daily The News reported that Pakistani defence forces have made an operational plan ready to give a “befitting response to any misadventure from India and in case of a surgical strike from the enemy”.
Pakistan are understood to be behind the severe unrest that has gripped the disputed region of Kashmir over the past two or three months following the death of an alleged terrorist. “That is something they have been doing for years”, Pakistan Air Force spokesman Commodore Javed Mohammad Ali said.
The US was particularly circumspect despite the special relationship New Delhi claims to have developed with Washington, by refusing to mention Pakistan, and insisting that both the neighbours needed to talk. Talks are in the interest of both countries.
Over the past two days, Pakistani fighter planes have staged rare repeated landings on the main highway linking the capital, Islamabad, to Lahore to the east and Peshawar to the west.
“Pakistan uses terror as a strategic policy despite facing several terror attacks itself and losing thousands of its people”.
“Pakistan is fully prepared to meet any military challenge from India”.
He said that Indian should have investigated the attack before accusing anyone. “That Osama bin Laden was found hiding near a Pakistan military training academy did little to allay their suspicions”.
“Pakistan is a peace loving country”.
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He was seen off at Kennedy International Airport by Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations Maleeha Lodhi, the Ambassador to the United States Jalil Abbas Jilani and senior officials of the Pakistan Mission here.
