Pakistan’s Foreign Office condemned the statement, calling it a violation of the United Nations charter and adding that it was an attempt to divert attention from the violence surging in Kashmir.
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He said the peace would return to Jammu and Kashmir in particular and south Asian region in general only after the Kashmir issue is treated as a “political issue” and India and Pakistan initiate peace talks to resolve it “permanently”.
“Yes, India approached the issue with caution and we understood it”.
In Indian-controlled Kashmir, many saw the transition as the mere transfer of power from their Hindu king to Hindu-majority India.
Expecting India and other “humanitarian nations” to raise the issues of a “voiceless” Balochistan at the United Nation and pressurise Pakistan through worldwide embargo, he says, “Either it be the Arab world, North America, European Union, United Kingdom – all the powers around the world have to stop supporting Pakistan and put sanctions on Pakistan for all the atrocities and genocide going on in Balochistan”.
This view found support from the ministry of external affairs, which had consistently built a narrative around India as the victim of terrorism, which believed in maintaining a distance from Pakistan’s internal strife.
Pakistan regularly raised the Kashmir dispute in global forums, including in the U.N. Meanwhile, India began calling the region an integral part of the nation, insisting that Kashmir’s lawmakers had ratified the accession to New Delhi.
The income calling facility on mobile telephony in Kashmir was restored on Saturday morning after it remained suspended for six days- second time in last 43 days. Home Minister Rajnath Singh went to Srinagar and ordered the banning of pellet guns, but they are still in use. Karima Baloch urged him to be the voice of Baloch genocide, human rights violations and war crimes at global forums. A more overt role by India in support of Balochistan, they felt, could jeopardise this cooperation. This whole situation could suggest that PM Modi may be using Balochistan as a counterbalancing maneuver. Indeed, the Kashmiris have been and are fighting to become part of Pakistan.
He appreciated Pakistan’s commitment to finding a “peaceful resolution” of the Kashmir dispute.
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“In Balochistan, there is extreme suffering at the hands of extremists promoted by state structures in Pakistan”, he added. Modi had promised to take up the cause of Baloch tribe who are reportedly facing dictatorship by the Pakistan military. The home minister returned from Islamabad to great national applause. Certainly, too, the PM would have been furious at Sharif’s falling in line with his army and the ISI and raising Kashmir internationally.
