Earlier in the day, India’s permanent representative to the United Nations (UN) Syed Akbaruddin lashed out at Pakistan and accused it of trying to misuse the platform provided by the UN.
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Curfew has been imposed in the Valley since July 9 to control large scale violence following the death of top Hizbul Mujahideen commander, Burhan Wani, 22, who was killed in a gunfight on July 8 along with two of his associates.
Referring to summoning of Indian envoy in Islamabad by Pakistan Foreign Office to raise Kashmir situation, Swarup said, the envoy conveyed to Pakistan that it was an internal matter of India. “The attempt came from Pakistan; a country that covets the territory of others; a country that uses terrorism as state policy towards that misguided end; a country that extols the virtues of terrorists and that provides sanctuary to UN-designated terrorists; and a country that masquerades its efforts as support for human rights and self determination”, Akbaruddin said.
Toner was responding to a question on protests in Kashmir after the killing of Wani in an encounter by security forces last week.
According to the Syed statement, He said that the Pakistan was the identical country which disappointed to influence global community to get membership of Human Rights Council and further in future he will not take it.
The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik, in a joint statement urged the United Nations to come forward in a big way and take solid steps for stopping human rights violations and settlement of the Kashmir dispute.
The spokesman once again lauded the statement of Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif that Pakistan’s soil will not be allowed to be used against any other country.
India has asked Pakistan to refrain from interfering in its internal affairs.
The prime minister said that the voice and struggle of the people of Indian-held Kashmir can not be suppressed through the use of brutal force and human rights abuses.
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He also asked the United Nations to get its resolutions on Kashmir implemented as it was UN’s responsibility to solve worldwide disputes including Kashmir. “If you (UN) want to intervene in helping resolution of Kashmir then it is your obligation”, he said.
