Meanwhile, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday said the world needs to take stock of the plight of Kashmiri people and vowed to support their “indigenous freedom struggle”. We feel for people inside the country as well as outside the country.
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He said most of the UN Security Council members had already been taken onboard on the continued violation of human rights in Indian-held Kashmir.
Foreign Office spokesperson Nafees Zakaria on Thursday said an Independence Day speech by the Indian prime minister berating Islamabad – especially at a time when tempers were already frayed over the escalating violence in Indian-held Kashmir – has further strained ties between the two countries. “The terrorism issue has become so central to relation, it makes relationship as a whole to progress”, said Foreign Secretary S Jaishanker. The prime minister will lead the delegation next month.
According to Swarup, Jaishankar in his letter “conveyed that he accepts his counterpart’s invitation to visit Islamabad” but made it clear that the discussions should focus first on the more pressing aspects of the Jammu & Kashmir situation. “Pakistan’s record of cross border terrorism and infiltration is at the heart of the problems in the region today”, said Vikas Swarup in the Foreign Ministry.
In a worrying escalation the previous day, Indian security forces fired live rounds at a crowd of stone-throwing protesters in Kashmir’s Baramulla district, killing five and wounding 10.
“I wouldn’t speak to Mr Modi’s comments, that would be for him to speak to”, Trudeau said.
Indian spokesman at the MEA told the media that it was for Islamabad to decide on readiness to discuss the issues of cross-border terrorism, vacation of illegal occupation of parts of Jammu and Kashmir and closing down terror camps.
Pakistan said Thursday it allows the United Nations to send a team to its part of Kashmir, days after India turned down request by the United Nations rights council to travel to the Indian-controlled Kashmir to investigate the alleged rights violations. I said he does not think about the Kashmir in India, only about Pak-occupied Kashmir.
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“We arrested [Indian spy] Kulbhushan Jadhav and his entire network”, Zehri said, adding that the spy admitted during investigation that he had funded and trained lesser-privileged people and “turned them against Balochistan and Pakistan”.
