About 60 militants took advantage of the riots in Jammu and Kashmir state to enter the country from Pakistan and carry out attacks in recent weeks, today revealed a security source.
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One must not cast doubts on the outcome of the proposed meeting of the Foreign Secretaries but track record of New Delhi vis-à-vis talks with Pakistan especially on the core issue of Jammu and Kashmir does not spark confidence as India always used the dialogue process as a ploy to hoodwink worldwide public opinion.
His comments come after Prime Minister Narendra Modi raked up the Balochistan issue during his Independence Day speech at Red Fort earlier this week. “You can ask some other countries in the region too”.
“Narendra Modi’s remarks, repeated during his speech on Aug 15, unnecessarily dragging Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir into the debate, have not helped matters on the bilateral front, or in addressing the unrest in held Kashmir”, the Dawn said on Thursday (Aug 18).
“We will continue to encourage worldwide community to uphold promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the parts of J-K under illegal occupation of Pakistan, and hold the concerned accountable for their violation”, said Swarup.
Nafees said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will “forcefully” present Pakistan’s stance on the state-terrorism in Kashmir at the UN General Assembly session in NY next month.
Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon on Friday condemned the killings of Kashmiri protesters by Indian security forces in occupied Kashmir.
India had moved the United Nations after armed raiders backed by Pakistani establishment invaded the state of Jammu and Kashmir right after independence and a part of the state remained under control of Pakistan since then.
In a response to his Pakistani counterpart Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry’s offer for talks on Kashmir, Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar said discussions should focus on cessation of terrorist activities in J&K and ending incitement to violence and terror in the Valley.
Nafees said by mentioning Balochistan, the Indian prime minister had tried to ward off attention from what is happening in occupied Kashmir. “The government has already decided its stand that we need to take against Pakistan with regard to the matter of Jammu and Kashmir”, he told ANI. “Modi may have some “close friends” in Pakistan but the people of Pakistan won’t tolerate such language from him against Balochistan or any other integral part of Pakistan”, he asserted.
Zakaria said Pakistan had invited finance ministers of SAARC countries for the next week meeting but so far was waiting for confirmation on Arun Jaitley’s participation. “We are awaiting the confirmation of his participation”, he added.
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“Pakistan crushes the movements of muhajirs, provincial independence movement by using bombs”, Kumar said.
