“Pakistan recognises no red lines in conduct of its own diplomacy”.
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“It is the violation of the UN Charter.He (Modi) crossed the red line by talking about Balochistan”, Zakaria said.
External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Vikas Swarup said the Prime Minister had been thanked by people of Balochistan and Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir, including Gilgit-Baltistan, for flagging their problems at an all-party meeting here last week and, moved by their messages, he talked about them in his speech from the Red Fort.
In his letter, Jaishankar recalled “Pakistan’s long history of violence and terrorism against India” – from 1947 to the 1965 war and the Kargil war.
Deliberations should also focus on denying safe haven, shelters and support to terrorists in Pakistan who have escaped Indian law, Jaishankar said in his letter.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said the latest offer of dialogue on Kashmir from Pakistan could progress only if Islamabad stopped the export of terror that hit Kashmir, as well as Mumbai on 26/11, and demanded the “earliest possible vacation of PoK [Pakistan-occupied Kashmir]”.
“The Indian state of J&K has been its particular target”.
“This approach to India was reflected in support for terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir that continues to the present day”.
To a question, he said Pakistan supports political solution of Syrian issue.
The MEA, which was directed by the Prime Minister to get in touch with Baloch leaders across the globe to highlight the atrocities committed by Pakistan in the region, is keeping its cards on the issues under the wrap.
Jaishankar conveyed to Chaudhry that the discussion must include cessation of cross-border terrorism by Pakistan and ending incitement to violence in the Valley. And this is not just India’s view. “You can ask some of the other countries in the region too”.
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The UN Secretary-General wrote a reply to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s letter, which the Pakistani Premier had written to him to take notice of the killings of Kashmiri civilians in Indian-held Kashmir. “The only difference this time was that the various messages the Prime Minister had received had sufficiently moved him to share it with the people of India”, he said.
