“The letter highlights the worldwide obligation of both the countries, India and Pakistan, to resolve the Jammu and Kashmir dispute, in accordance with the UN Security Council resolutions”. A spate of militant attacks on security forces has followed.
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“Such access would enable us to provide an independent and fact-based analysis of the situation, which is so crucial in volatile, politically-charged situations”, his statement said.
Responding to Pakistan Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry’s invitation to come for talks on the Jammu and Kashmir issue, Indian Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar on Wednesday conveyed his willingness to visit Islamabad for holding talks on “cross-border terrorism” rather than on Kashmir.
“The letter highlights the worldwide obligation of both the countries, India and Pakistan, to resolve the Jammu and Kashmir dispute, in accordance with the US Security Council resolutions”, Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesperson Nafees Zakaria said in his statement. Persistent protests blocked the main highway in Balochistan.they demanded that the Indian Prime Minister must apologize over his remarks on Balochistan.
On the ongoing Kashmir unrest, he said the youths in the state should be educated about their “historical, good things” and this could change a lot of things.
“The reference to Balochistan in this year’s Independence Day speech certainly signals a change in tone in the Modi government’s Pakistan policy”, said Lisa Curtis of The Heritage Foundation, a top Americana think-tank, which is considered close to the Republican establishment.
Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar at the Parliament House.
The Foreign Office also slammed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent address by stating that it was an unsuccessful attempt to hide the Indian atrocities and acts of injustice in occupied Kashmir.
The violence continues despite the call of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who on Friday urged again to dialogue to gain the trust of the Kashmiri people, and appealed for a peaceful solution to the dispute.
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Modi in his speech on August 15, India’s Independence Day, said “people of Balochistan, Gilgit and PoK (Pakistan Occupied Kashmir) have thanked me a lot in past few days, I am grateful to them”.
