According to India Today, the Secretary of State during a meeting with the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, asked him to support India in its efforts to thwart terrorists who attacked the military camp in Uri, Jammu and Kashmir, killing 19 Indian soldiers.
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Sharif praised Wani as “as the symbol of the latest Kashmiri Intifada, a popular and peaceful freedom movement”, drawing an immediate response from the Indian foreign ministry.
India sees Pakistan as “a terrorist state“, she said, accusing Pakistan of diverting worldwide aid towards training, financing and supporting terror groups as “militant proxies” against neighbouring countries.
“Pakistan has been the principle victim of terrorism, including that supported and sponsored from overseas”.
September 22 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday strongly condemned Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s speech at 71st session of United Nations General Assembly, saying that a hostile Pakistan has always given highest priority to terror networks and this was more than evident in the latter’s speech. “I have gone the extra mile to achieve this”, he told the gathering in NY.
Sharif had glorified a self-declared terrorist (Burhan Wani) belonging to Hizbul Mujahideen.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif accused nuclear-armed rival India on Wednesday of putting unacceptable conditions on dialogue and said the world would ignore rising tension in South Asia at its peril.
Akbar said: “Pakistan at this moment seems to be run by a war machine rather than a government”. He scoffed at Islamabad for wanting dialogue while holding a gun, adding India will “never succumb to such tactics and blackmail”.
“Talks and guns don’t go together”.
“Shortly before Pakistan gave its hypocritical sermons in this august house today, its envoy in New Delhi was summoned in the context of the most recent of the terror attacks in Uri that claimed 18 Indian lives”. “We are ready to play constructive role in improvement of relations between Pakistan and India”, Li said.
Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan Manpreet Vohra, Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat Karzai and US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Olson met in NY on Wednesday on the margins of the 71st UN General Assembly for a round of trilateral consultations.
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“We will not win the fight against terrorism, as long as we do not address its root cause, which lies in the poverty and ignorance”, he said.
