“The Home Minister is visiting Pakistan for a SAARC related event as Home Ministers of India have been attending all previous Home Minister related events in the SAARC context”, MEA official spokesperson Vikas Swarup said in a press conference.
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“There is no point in talking to Pakistan”.
Locals said that elections in PoK are always fixed in favour of the ruling party in Pakistan, in current instance, for the PML-N.
“If the USA continually pushes for India’s exclusive entry into the NSG, the bilateral relations with Pakistan would not be ‘business as usual”.
He expressed serious concern over the “human rights violations” in Kashmir.
The spokesman condemned Indian atrocities on Kashmiris and urged New Delhi to “hold an impartial plebiscite” in Kashmir under United Nations supervision, Radio Pakistan reported.
On the elections in Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir (PoK), he said it was a “farcical exercise” to cover up their illegal occupation but India believes that through their “sham tactics”, they will not succeed in “sinister designs”.
It is incumbent on Pakistan to create such an atmosphere, he added while stressing that humanitarian issues such as fishermen are important to India.
Asking people to remain steadfast, the APHC Chairman paid tributes to Burhan Wani and said, “It was because of his honesty and commitment that Burhan achieved martyrdom and world is witness as how lakhs of people attended his funeral”. “But talks can happen only in an environment without terror”, Swarup had said. “We assure the people of Kashmir that the people of Pakistan are with them in their freedom struggle and the Kashmir issue is on top of their priorities. This is not a hate forum, we share stories”, Parrey said.
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President SVI Dr Zafar Iqbal Cheema said that India’s alone entry into NSG would put back Pakistani efforts for developing its infrastructure and industry by decades, besides having serious consequences for national security and economic and industrial development.
