Ms. Swaraj said the Indian Government had reached out to other countries to counter the Pakistani propaganda.
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“Provide moral, political and financial support to the freedom movement in PoK”, BJP state spokesperson Brigadier Anil Gupta said. “Pakistan can speak a million lies but the world will not accept these”.
On Afghanistan, Aziz said the Conference noted that there was full consensus in Pakistan that the peace in Kabul is in their national interest.
On Tuesday, PM Modi had said in a rally in Madhya Pradesh that Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had shown us the path, and we will follow his footsteps: Jamooriyat (democracy), Insaniyat (Humanity), and kashmiriyat (Kashmiri values). Lok Sabha also passed a resolution on Kashmir saying peace should be restored and unity and integrity of the country was supreme.
Favoring a dialogue with the people of Jammu and Kashmir in order to “win over their confidence”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) is a part of J&K. He blamed “cross-border terrorism” for the unrest in the disputed region.
Aziz added that the conference discussed taking a number of diplomatic initiatives and decided that Pakistan should invite India for a dialogue on Kashmir issue. Every Kashmiri wants to live in harmony and believes in democracy. “The government and the separatists are speaking in completely divergent voices”.
While Pakistan’s formal application for NSG membership was submitted on May 19, 2016, we had been preparing for it for quite some time. “DeM request all the people mostly women to celebrate Pakistan Independence Day with fervor and stage protest against India rule in Kashmir”, she said. “We have a very firm policy in this regard that we would not allow our soil to be used for any terrorist activity against anyone”, Zakaria said.
But violence in Jammu and Kashmir, India’s only Muslim-majority state, is now fanning separatists’ hopes for a revival of their cause. Innocent Kashmiris have also been barred from offering weekly Jumma prayer in suspicion of a possible protest after the prayer, 24 News reported earlier.
“Pakistan has forgotten that it bombards its own citizens from fighter planes”, Modi said in an apparent reference to Islamabad’s allegation of excesses by Indian security forces battling violent mobs in Kashmir since the killing of a Hizbul commander on July 8.
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Describing Azad Jammu and Kashmir as India’s, Modi told an all-party meeting that a dialogue must be initiated with expatriates all over the world from that region about what Indians say are abuses by Islamabad.
