According to the FO, Pakistan also expressed its concerns over the detention of Kashmiri leadership in IHK and called upon the Indian government to fulfill its human rights obligations as well as its commitments under United Nations resolutions. Some US Congressmen and witnesses also suggested declaring Pakistan a state sponsor of terrorism and imposing economic sanctions if Islamabad did not eliminate the alleged terrorist safe havens on its territory what would be a shot in the arm for India.
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Web Desk: At least 30 people have been reported dead as latest incidents of Indian violence in Kashmir enter seventh day following the killing of Burhan Wani-a young Kashmiri militant commander.
Pakistan’s attempt to fish in Kashmir’s troubled waters has prompted India to return to its old stand that “talks and terror can not go hand-in-hand”. Hopefully, special Cabinet meeting would come out with a coherent strategy to highlight the cause of Kashmiri people and to expose India’s real face.
India has taken Pakistan to task over Islamabad’s alleged misuse of the United Nations platform on the Kashmir issue and described the neighbour as “a country that covets the territory of others” and “provides sanctuary to UN-designated terrorists”.
On statements by Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed that the ongoing protests in Kashmir would be intensified and warning that the deaths in the region would not be in vain, Swarup said it was incumbent upon Pakistan to reign-in such elements because if there has to be durable peace, such elements have to be controlled.
They further added that India should know that Kashmiris could not be fooled by announcement of development packages. India’s ambassador to the UN, Syed Akbaruddin, delivered a hard-hitting statement after provocative remarks by Pakistan’s envoy Maleeha Lodhi on Kashmir and Hizul Mujahideen poster boy Burhan Wani’s killing during a debate on human rights in the General Assembly in New York Wednesday. Lately voices have been raised that the current Nawaz Sharif government is not doing enough to raise the Kashmir issue and rally support of the worldwide community to condemn Indian violence in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK). Asserting that the Wani issue was internal to India, he said that Pakistan has no locus standi in the matter and asked it to refrain from interfering.
“The occupation forces in Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir are resorting to these brutal acts to suppress the right to self-determination of the Kashmiri people, promised to them by several UN Security Council resolutions”. In a sharp rebuke to Pakistan for raising the Kashmir issue at the UN, India denounced it as a country that uses terrorists and provides them sanctuary and said Islamabad’s cynical efforts to internationalise the dispute have fallen flat.
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Akbaruddin further said, “Pakistan is the same country whose track record has failed to convince the global community on giving membership of the Human Rights Council in this very Session of the UNGA”.
