The Pakistan government said the letter “highlights the global obligation of both the countries, India and Pakistan, to resolve the Jammu and Kashmir dispute, in accordance with the UN Security Council resolutions”.
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Bilkulonline.com, New Delhi, Aug 17: Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar has accepted his Pakistani counterpart Aizaz Chaudhry’s invitation for talks on Jammu and Kashmir, it is learnt. The offer was the second peace overture from Pakistan since August 12 when it extended a mechanism on “non-testing of nuclear weapons”.
Naqvi said that when the people of Balochistan welcomed Prime Minister Modi’s statement, it is hard to comprehend why is the Congress opposing his speech.
India is willing to send its diplomat to Pakistan to discuss cross border terrorism, reported Reuters on Wednesday. CBD however has so far failed to take off due to the terror strike on Pathankot airbase on January 2, 2016 and the subsequent disturbances in Kashmir.
The Indian foreign secretary “conveyed his willingness to visit Islamabad”, the sources said.
“People of Balochistan, Gilgit and PoK have thanked me a lot in past few days, I am grateful to them”, Prime Minister Modi said while addressing the nation on the occasion of 70th Independence Day.
In his over 90-minute Independence Day speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday openly came out in support of “freedom” for Balochistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. “I can only characterise its contents that propose sending supplies to the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir as absurd”, External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Vikas Swarup said.
He expressed deep regret at the failure of Indian and Pakistani authorities to grant the UN Human Rights Office access to Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan-administered Kashmir respectively, given grave concerns about recent allegations of serious human rights violations.
Wani was described as a martyr by Pakistan, which has also tried to internationalise the Kashmir issue while India has been maintaining that Pakistan-sponsored terrorism in the valley is the root cause of the turbulence.
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At least 79 civilians have been killed in clashes between protesters and security forces, and thousands more injured in the worst violence to hit India-held Kashmir since 2010.
