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Korea condemns attack in Kashmir, vows cooperation to tackle terrorism

The OIC Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, in NY.

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Pakistan has denied the allegations even as India claimed to have clinching evidence to support its claims. Sharif raised the issue with the leaders of the USA, the UK, Japan and Turkey and sought their intervention to resolve the matter. “PM Sharif briefed Japanese PM about the grave turn that the situation in occupied Kashmir is taking”.

The official said while there were no reports of any casualty in the firing, further details of the incident were awaited.

Salim, 80, also said it was Sharif’s admission that no one in Pakistan listens to him.

The terrorists are a Pakistani assets inside Indian territory and such tactics were used in the 1965 and 1947 wars. “He said peace and stability in the region is in the interest of both Pakistan and Afghanistan”.

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has urged the U.S. to help resolve issues between Islamabad and New Delhi.

Pakistan has, however, flatly rejected New Delhi’s claims of Islamabad’s involvement in the Uri terror attack, saying it is the latter’s traditional tendency to point fingers at the former whenever a terror attack takes place on Indian soil.

The people of Jammu and Kashmir must be allowed to choose their destiny and that the longstanding resolutions of the UN Security Council on the right to self-determination of the Kashmiri people need to be implemented, he said during his meeting with May. More than 80 people have been killed in the protests.

The presence of the Foreign Secretary in the meeting is significant as government plans to launch a diplomatic offensive against Pakistan.

If India believes, he pointed out, that Pakistan is involved in the attack, then why New Delhi is against deployment of UN Military Observers and other neutral and credible worldwide organizations along the Line of Control in Kashmir. The Indian media has largely argued that Sharif’s efforts have fallen on deaf ears.

Akbar is setting the stage for Sushma Swaraj, External Affairs minister who is expected to speak at UN General Assembly on 26 September, where she is expected to raise the issue of Pakistan using terror as a state policy and the recent Uri attacks.

Saying what did not make sense in the 1990s can not be good policy today, the daily said that Pakistani policy makers had helped to craft an environment in Afghanistan where radical Islamists among that country’s Pakhtuns were the only semi-allies Islamabad has.

This refers to the editorial, “It’s time to act”.

Meanwhile, in this meeting apart from Pakistani Prime Miniter, there were a couple of other Pakistani officials were also present.

“India’s Home Minister Rajnath Singh called neighboring Pakistan a “terrorist state” Sunday, in response to an attack by suspected militants in the conflict-wrought border state of Kashmir that killed 17 Indian soldiers”.

This development comes after the Prime Minister yesterday chaired a high-level meeting at his official residence at 7 Race Course Road here.

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Sharif will address world leaders from the UNGA podium in the morning session tomorrow. Covert operations linked with deniability and a tough posture along the LoC could work, they said.

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