She said Pakistan is highlighting Kashmir issue at all forums to seek global attention and the letter of the UN Secretary General to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on the issue is an evidence of the government’s efforts.
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“The Prime Minister strongly pleaded the case of Kashmir during General Assembly session a year ago and we will again forcefully raise the issue”, Foreign Office Spokesperson Nafees Zakaria said.
The reference comes a few days after the Prime Minister vowed to take up atrocities by the Pakistani government in these three areas on the worldwide stage, when he spoke to an all-party delegation about the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, according to The Hindu.
“It is the violation of the UN Charter…” Congress is already in a damage control mode after former external affairs minister Salman Khurshid’s take on the Balochistan reference in Modi’s speech earlier this week.
He alleged that India was involved in subversive activities in Balochistan and Karachi.
He stated that the world was aware that Pakistan has a long history of violence and terrorism against India, as also in the broader region. From 1999 onwards, when the Lahore declaration was signed between Prime Ministers Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Nawaz Sharif, the invoking of the UN Security Council resolutions has been used sparingly, that too in rhetoric.
He said the issue was still outstanding on the Security Council agenda for more than six decades.
“He said those involved in human rights violations in the valley should be identified and given strict punishment”, it said.
As many as 65 people, including two police personnel, have been killed and several thousand injured in the clashes. The crimes being perpetrated in Indian-occupied Kashmir have become too blatant for the United Nations to ignore altogether so it is trying to distract from that by pretending the issue is one of India-Pakistan rivalry or can be compared to what is happening in AJK.
Lashing out at Pakistan, BJP MP Yogi Adityanath has said if the neighbouring country dares to fight with India, its existence would be in danger and that Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) would soon be a part of India. However, he refused to confirm if India had responded to the proposal.
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He had last week in an all-party meeting on Kashmir said the “time has come that Pakistan shall have to answer to the world for the atrocities committed by it against the people in Balochistan and PoK”.
