Senior Government of Pakistan officials also apparently addressed letters to the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), the President of the UN Security Council, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Secretary-General of the OIC, urging the global community to address the alleged human rights violations by Indian authorities during protests in Jammu and Kashmir since July 8. “We are in touch with important interlocutors bilaterally as well as multilaterally to put across the correct picture”, said official spokesperson of external affairs ministry Vikas Swarup.
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“Let me also say it does not matter how many letters are written, it will still not whitewash cross-border terrorism”, Swarup said on Thursday.
Earlier on Tuesday, India summoned Pakistani High Commissioner Abdul Basit in New Delhi and handed him a “strong demarche” over Islamabad’s continued support to cross-border terrorism by pushing in trained terrorists to carry out the attacks, particularly in Kashmir.
Following Lashkar-e-Tayyeba terrorist Bahadur Ali’s confession on Pakistani security forces’ involvement in creating trouble in Kashmir, MEA said Islamabad now stands exposed.
The Foreign Office has rejected the Indian allegations of infiltration in Indian Held Kashmir (IHK) and ruled out the role of any Pakistani involved in terrorism in India.
Asked if the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan were still in touch, the MEA spokesman avoided a direct reply, only saying new dynamics are at play and India can not be oblivious to it.
About the Pakistani helicopter, that crashed in Afghanistan, the spokesman said the Afghan authorities had “assured us that it will take all necessary steps to ensure safe recovery of the crew members”.
Armed with his confessional statement, the NIA on Wednesday blamed the banned LeT for fuelling the continuing unrest in Kashmir.
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Earlier, replying to a written question in the Rajya Sabha, the MEA said India had also emphasised to worldwide interlocutors that Indian security forces had exercised extraordinary restraint, as evident in injuries to over 3,780 security personnel in mob attacks in the continuing violent protests in Kashmir. “Mehbooba Mufti should learn a lesson from the death of her father whose graveyard is being guarded by more than 25 security personnel”, he said and added people of Kashmir in present circumstances badly need the help from Pakistan.
