At a weekly media briefing, foreign office spokesman Nafees Zakaria said confessions of Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing’s agent Kulbhushan Yadav were irrefutable.
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About update on the letter of Foreign Secretary written to his counterpart proposing exclusive dialogue on Kashmir, Zakaria said “we have extended the invitation, and would like to get the issue resolved through dialogue”. He also proposed that the talks should include the progress made by the Pakistan government in detaining and prosecuting internationally recognised terrorists, who have been active in Pakistan in exhorting and supporting violence in Jammu and Kashmir.
Talking about the stranded Pakistani workers in Saudi Arabia, he said efforts are underway to resolve the problems faced by the workers.
“MEA will do whatever it has to do, after all people of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir are also our people”, Vikas Swarup, Spokesperson and JS (XP), Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said here on Thursday responding to a question on India’s stance towards the people of Balochistan, Gilgit and PoK. “It is, therefore, essential that the United Nations fact finding team must visit IOK”, he said. Indian has been making vain attempts to accuse Pakistan of fomenting trouble in Kashmir.
Pakistan observed a “Black Day” on 20 July to protest alleged human rights violations in Kashmir.
Undeterred by the Indian strategy, the spokesperson said Prime Minister Nawaz will forcefully raise the Kashmir issue particularly with reference to what he called ongoing atrocities being committed by Indian forces there at the upcoming UN General Assembly session in NY.
In a first for any Prime Minister in an August 15 address, Modi referred to human rights abuses in Balochistan and the part of Kashmir that Pakistan controls.
An all-party meeting in New Delhi presided over by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week dismissed the UNHRC’s request to visit Kashmir. “Pakistan has never prevented United Nations officials from travelling to Azad Jammu and Kashmir”, Zakaria pointed out.
Pakistan angered India by describing Wani, who India says was a militant belonging to the Hizbul Mujahideen group, as a Kashmiri leader. “And we have been saying to stop the use of the inhuman pellet guns”, he said. “At appropriate time, we will further take action in this regard”, he added.
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In thanking an Indian Prime Minister, “they have thanked the whole population of my country”, he said. The Left leader said the Foreign Secretary stated nothing new.
