New Delhi, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday castigated Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s speech at the 17st session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and said that his address discredited the kind of responsible statesmanship expected from the Prime Minster of a nation.
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“The so called dossier Pakistan PM referred to in his speech at UNGA, we find no mention of it in UN Secretary General’s statement”, Swarup said.
While talking to Pakistani journalists here, he said Pakistan security forces and civil society have sacrificed a lot in the war against terrorism. In reply Indian ambassador Alok Ranjan Jha lashed out at Pakistani envoy by replying them that “the country torturing Balochi people should not be crying for human rights violations in our territory”.
Sharif said Pakistan wanted peace with India and had repeatedly offered dialogue.
“We are constantly opposed to all forms of terrorism, maintaining that terrorist threats be addressed through enhanced worldwide cooperation in order to safeguard the human society. Perhaps renunciation of lies and self-restraint on threats could be a good place for Pakistan to start”.
Muhammad Faisal, a director general at the Foreign Office, rejected Gambhir’s accusations that Pakistan was promoting terrorism in India-held Kashmir (IHK) and elsewhere, saying that the Kashmiri uprising after the death of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani “was spontaneous and indigenous”.
Sunday’s attack was “part of a trail of continuous flow of terrorists trained and armed by our neighbor” and tasked to carry out attacks in India, she said. As a democracy India is firmly resolved to protect all our citizens from all acts of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir.
No mention of J&K in Ban Ki-moon’s speech is good news for India as Pakistan is making repeated requests to United Nations to intervene in the disputed territories of Jammu & Kashmir.
“We can not and will not allow terrorism to prevail”, she said. He said Pakistan is a peaceful country and peaceful neighbourhood is the vision of the Prime Minister.
Sharif had added that Wani had become “the symbol of the new Kashmiri intifada that was led by common Kashmiris”, as per IANS.
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On protests by Baloch activists outside the UN, Akbar said Balochistan people have reasons for protests against the policy and a “very long history” of serious violence against its people. Pakistan denies sending fighters into Indian-administered Kashmir.
