In that case, the Modi government should have no qualms about letting the UN Human Rights Commission send its team to ascertain the identity of the victims. Just $5 a month.
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Asserting that booking Baloch leaders-in-exile for allegedly backing Prime Minister Narendra Modi ” s remarks only showed the sheer bankruptcy of Pakistan, the Congress on August 22 stated that Islamabad’s continuous suppression of its own people only exposed the political and constitutional bankruptcy of the “failed state’. Balochistan has been reduced to a geostrategic loci, central to Pakistan’s self-aggrandizement as an opulent crossroads for global powers. He invited Sartaj Aziz to attend it and welcomed the proposal by Pakistan to host the OIC Summit. Balochistan and Gilgit-Baltistan, two of the three regions in Pakistan mentioned by Modi in his address, are critical nodes along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a series of energy and infrastructure projects anchored by a road network that will connect China’s western Xinjiang region to the Arabian Sea port of Gwadar, located in Pakistani Balochistan along Persian Gulf shipping lanes and in the Indian Ocean region. People of AJK and GB are living peacefully as part of Pakistan. The video was created to deflect the limelight away from security shortcomings that led to the brutal massacre in the ruling party’s hub in March. But the response by Indian security forces has been heavy-handed.
Petitioner Munir Ahmed also alleged that the Baloch leaders had asked the Indian premier to commit aggression against Pakistan. Later, the Pakistani media had said that PM’s speech was a breach of worldwide norms and intrusion of India into Pakistan’s sovereignty.
New Delhi:With Prime Minister Narendra Modi raking up Gilgit and Baluchistan, Pakistan too hardened its stand on Jammu and Kashmir, invoking the “UN Security Council resolutions and aspirations of the people of J&K” and stressing on the need to find a fair and just solution to the Kashmir issue – a retreat of sorts to the pre-dialogue years nearly two decades ago. Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has commended the beginning of “a new freedom movement in Kashmir” and has accused India of using unrestrained force to quell widespread anger against Delhi. Its latest missive takes back the bilateral conversation on Kashmir by nearly two decades. “India is non-serious in finding a solution to the Kashmir dispute. India-Pakistan, Pakistan-Afghanistan, Durand Line, everything is a legacy of the British”, said Karzai, who has warm ties with New Delhi despite having left office. This perceived deliberate isolation of Pakistan is also bolstering the BJP’s popularity back home.
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While many Baloch nationalist leaders have hailed the Indian PM’s statements, it is more a case of clutching at straws at a time when the world continues to turn a blind eye to the crisis in Balochistan. Large number of lawyers, journalists, civil society and school students are participating in the rallies. Should Pakistan provide India with such an opportunity, is indeed, somewhat astonishing.
