India’s Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar spoke with Pakistan’s High Commissioner Abdul Basit about the attack, which claimed the lives of 18 Indian soldiers, at India’s Ministry of External Affairs.
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Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan, speaks during the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016, at U.N. headquarters.
Sharif also blamed India for imposing “unacceptable preconditions” for potential peace talks over Kashmir to end the 27-year-long conflict between the two nuclear-armed rivals.
Asked if India was preparing any fresh dossier on Pakistan’s involvement in terrorist activities, Swarup said: “We don’t need a dossier; the whole world is aware of Pakistan’s role in promoting terror”.
“In the very first invitation that was extended to the SAARC leaders, it was made clear that India was always ready for a dialogue with anyone, but not if there was any use of terrorism”.
A picture of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Muzaffar Wani is held up during a rally condemning the violence in Kashmir in Islamabad on July 24.
Peace talks between India and Pakistan have been deadlocked since a 2008 terror attack in India’s financial capital, Mumbai, killed over 160 people.
“Pakistan wants dialogue while holding a gun a terrorist gun in its hand”.
To a question, Zakaria said there is concrete evidence of Indian sponsored terrorism and terrorist financing in Pakistan especially in Balochistan and Karachi.
She also noted that the land of Taxila, which lies 20 miles north-west of Islamabad, an important and great learning place of ancient times, “is now host to the Ivy League of terrorism”. India is a humanitarian country and here only humanity is abducted and crushed.
He said the Nepali Prime Minister in his interview was talking of cross border terrorism between India and Nepal and no third party country was referred to in that interview. “The effects of its toxic curriculum are felt across the globe” she said at the UNGA in response to Pakistan.
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The diplomat said the Kashmiri people looked towards the global community, especially the members of the UNSC, to deliver on the pledge to hold a free, fair and impartial plebiscite under United Nations auspices, to enable them to decide their future, a democratic and legal right of the Kashmiri people. This they allegedly did out of fear of surgical strikes by India following the Uri attack, not only in the northern sector in Jammu and Kashmir, but also along the western sector in Rajasthan.
