“In thanking an Indian Prime Minister, they have thanked the 125 crore countrymen”. “If at all Olympics had a medal for the most boring public speech then Prime Minister Narendra Modi would have received gold”, Delhi Culture Minister Kapil Mishra said. The two nuclear rivals have fought two wars over the disputed territory.
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He said India should recognize that bullets could not resolve the core issue of Kashmir. By choosing to highlight human rights abuses and the independence movement, particularly in Balochistan, Modi is signaling a new, more aggressive Indian foreign policy toward Pakistan.
Modi was “only trying to divert world attention from the grim tragedy that has been unfolding in the Indian Occupied Kashmir over the past five weeks”, Pakistan’s foreign affairs adviser Sartaj Aziz said in a statement.
J&K: The Kashmir Valley saw militants mount a morning assault on security forces in downtown Srinagar resulting in the death of the Commanding officer of CRPF’s 49th Battalion Pramod Kumar and two militants.
“More than 70 innocent Kashmiris have been killed and more than 6,000 injured”.
“At this time they include a stoppage of Pakistani support for cross-border terrorism, infiltration of terrorists like Bahadur Ali, incitement to violence and terrorism across the border, parading of internationally recognized terrorists like Hafiz Saeed and Syed Salahuddin, and honest followup on the Mumbai attack trial and the Pathankot attack investigation in Pakistan”, Swarup stated.
“Every Indian was a soldier of the freedom movement”, the PM declared from the ramparts of the Red Fort. This is a significant escalation of rhetoric and a major policy turnaround for Modi.
The Prime Minister asked the global community to judge the behaviour of India and Pakistan in the context of terror attacks in each others country.
The only previous time an Indian prime minister mentioned Baluchistan publicly was in 2009, when Modi’s party was in opposition.
India also virtually turned down Pakistan’s proposal to invite India for a dialogue on J&K, and made clear that it would only talk about contemporary and relevant issues in Indo-Pak relations.
Pakistan used that moment in ways that seem to mirror how Modi wants to use Monday’s as political leverage. He further added, “the Baloch mission and all the oppressed people of the world, still remember the decision of the Indian government when India intervened and came to the rescue of Bengali people from Pakistani brutalities in 1970s”.
Zehri said that lawyers, journalists and common people were victimized in suicide bomb attack in civil hospital Quetta. But unfortunately Congress party is not speaking in one voice.
The army also claimed it had foiled an infiltration attempt from Pakistan into North Kashmir, killing three militants. We will support it.
On December 27, 2005 the MEA spokesperson had stated that the Governemnt of India was watching with concern, the spiralling violence in Balochistan and the heavy military action.
But, the congress party distanced itself from the remarks of its senior leader Salman Khurshid on the speech of PM Modi.
It would appear that Modi is banking on the exact opposite.
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In a parallel development, U.S. has stated that Kashmir is India’s internal matter.
