“Now, the time has come for Pakistan to explain to the world the atrocities it is unleashing on the people of Balochistan and PoK”, PM Modi said in his concluding speech at the all-party meet on Kashmir. Opposition parties suggested the Indian government to take immediate Confidence Building Measures (CBMs).
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Asked if he was satisfied with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s response, Azad said: “We will be satisfied when peace is restored”. The adviser also emphasised that the current situation in held Kashmir was the result of continued denial by India of the right to self-determination of the people of Jammu and Kashmir that was promised to them by the United Nations resolutions.
Modi’s comments were “characterised by the same selective amnesia towards the legitimate struggle of the Kashmiri people”, it said. He, however, laid emphasis on winning the confidence of the people in Jammu and Kashmir.
Speaking at a news conference in Islamabad, Aziz said Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry would soon write a letter to his Indian counterpart seeking dialogue on Kashmir.
India also summoned the Pakistan envoy earlier this week and served him a demarche against continuing cross-border infiltration.
According to the adviser, Pakistani envoys had recommended in a conference held on August 1 that the country invite India for talks on the situation in Kashmir.
He also used the platform to hit out at Pakistan for its screwed human rights violations in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir and Balochistan and said it will have to answer to global community for the atrocities it was committing there. On Thursday, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had told Lok Sabha that India’s willingness to discuss the Kashmir issue with Pakistan would be limited to POK.
On July 25, Indian authorities arrested Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist Bahadur Ali in Jammu and Kashmir who had infiltrated into India from Pakistan.
Asserting that the Centre was taking a serious view of law and order situation, Singh said there was a drive to recruit policemen in the state.
Muzaffar Hussain Baig, a leader of the ruling PDP, said the unrest was different from 2010 when too the state had seen days of violence on the streets of Srinagar.
He further termed cross-border terrorism supported by Pakistan as the root cause of turbulence in the valley.
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The advisor said that it was agreed in the Conference that engagement with Afghanistan would be intensified at all level to address each other concern and to build on points of convergence.
