In yet another snub to Pakistan’s “Kashmir” rant at worldwide forum, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today rejected Islamabad’s repeated pleas seeking its intervention to resolve the Kashmir dispute with India.
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NEW YORK: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has urged the United Nations to send a fact finding mission to Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) to know the ground realities of brutal killings of the innocent Kashmiris by the Indian forces.
A report in Pakistani daily Dawn had said “Li had assured that China would continue to support Pakistan’s stance on Kashmir”.
Meanwhile, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has held a telephonic conversation with its powerful army chief General Raheel Sharif ahead of his speech at the United Nations in which he is expected to raise the Kashmir issue, amid signs he may tone down his rhetoric to reduce tensions with India.
While Sharif was delivering his speech, there was very thin attendance in the hall.
After summoning the Pakistan High Commissioner to India on Wednesday, Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar said, “The latest terrorist attack in Uri only underlines that the infrastructure of terrorism in Pakistan remains active”, S Jaishankar told Basit.
In her speech, she not only called Pakistan a host to the “Ivy League of terrorism,” but also slammed him for the statements he made on Kashmir, and self-styled Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani.
“I have gone the extra mile to achieve this, repeatedly offering a dialogue to address all outstanding issues”.
A demonstrator hits a poster of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during a protest organized by India’s main opposition Congress party against Sunday’s attack at an Indian army base camp in Kashmir’s Uri in Jammu, India, Sept. 21, 2016.
He also said that dialogue between Pakistan and India can bring out the best solution. Wani is declared commander of Hizbul, widely acknowledged as a terror group.
He said Pakistan and its leaders are committing crimes against the residents of Kashmir, demanding that the country stop “exporting terror and let its neighbours live in peace”. “The worldwide community ignores the dangers of rising tensions in South Asia at its own peril”, he said.
Pakistan is not part of it; it rejects terrorism as an instrument of state policy. More than 80 people were killed and hundreds more injured. He was responding to Sharif’s allegation that Pakistan had been ready to resolve the Kashmir dispute through dialogue, but India puts forward “unacceptable pre-conditions”.
Pakistan accuses US lawmakers of diplomatic theater, saying the harsh anti-Pakistani rhetoric belies that government’s efforts to root out extremism. “The worst violation of human rights is terrorism”, she said.
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Ban mentioned a plethora of global issues on the United Nations agenda, including the situation in Myanmar and Sri Lanka, the tensions in the Korean Peninsula and the Middle East but not Kashmir.
