“Pakistan will continue to extend moral, diplomatic and political support to Kashmiris”, Sharif said, alleging that atrocities in Kashmir had touched extremes.
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Recalling his constructive meetings with the US President Barack Obama during the last three years, Nawaz Sharif he emphasized that strong relations between Pakistan and the United States remained a mutual desire and this partnership was critical to ensure regional peace and stability.
The counsel of the Prime Minister, Salman Butt, pleaded before the court for additional time to study the case owing to non-availability of the case papers.
The other main issue that Sharif will be taking up will be Pakistan’s candidature to the Nuclear Suppliers Group.
Now this time again, the United States administration has suggested that both Pakistan and India resolve the issue through dialogue, the only way, out as aggressive policies are not in the betterment of the peoples of the region.
The prime minister arrived in NY to represent Pakistan at the proceedings of the UN General Assembly.
Whenever Pakistan has raised the Kashmir issue, India has responded by accusing the former of sponsoring terrorism in its land and the neighborhood and by raising the Balochistan issue.
According to media reports, he is likely to highlight his nation’s position on the major global issues.
India’s northernmost region of Jammu and Kashmir has been disputed by India and Pakistan since the dissolution of British India and the establishment of the two countries in 1947.
President of “Azad Jammu and Kashmir”, Khan said he would apprise OIC Contact Group that “Indian administered Kashmir is passing through one of its worst crisis in history” – referring to the unrest in Kashmir valley that has seen 90 people killed in clashes.
Pakistan has urged the permanent members of the Security Council to call upon the Indian government to immediately stop the bloodshed in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir and honour its human rights obligations as well as its commitments to the Kashmiri people.
“We’re aware that Pakistani security forces have arrested some MQM members allegedly involved in violent protests and that these operations have included the closure and demolition of offices deemed to have been illegally constructed”, he said.
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Noting that much of this displacement has neither been voluntary nor orderly, he said the people had been fleeing from desperate conditions of conflict, war or poverty.
