Dubbing Prime Minister Narendra Modi ” s statement on Pakistan as “disappointing’, the Janata Dal (United) on Sunday said the nation is looking for a new direction.
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Former India captain Sourav Ganguly echoed BCCI Chief Anurag Thakur’s comments on India-Pakistan cricket, when the latter said that there is no point in talking of resuming cricketing ties until Pakistan stops cross-border terrorism in India.
“We are and will be siding with Pakistan on the Kashmir issue”.
Pakistan has cancelled a trade exhibition which was scheduled to be held next month in India, amidst heightened tension between the two neighbours after the terror attack in Uri, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday addressed the UN General Assembly where he highlighted the Kashmir issue. “The Congress party never compromises with people who are terrorists or are involved in terror”, he said and went on to blame the NDA government for releasing Jaish-e Mohammad chief Azhar Masood in the hijacking case of Indian airlines in in 1999. Pakistan has been calling on the global community to take notice of Indian army atrocities in IoK, while New Delhi without any proof accused Pakistan of being behind the attack on an army base at Uri which left 17 soldiers dead. “Every nation is holding only one country responsible for terrorism”. Youth of Pakistan, let us fight to see if India is first able to end unemployment, or Pakistan.
And for the rest of the world too, there was a message that while the 21st century could very well become Asia’s century, there was one Asian country (who else but Pakistan) whose “aim” was to prevent that from happening. Most people in the Indian-controlled portion favor independence or a merger with Pakistan.
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India, Pakistan take pre-emptive military action near LOC. India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars over control of Kashmir since they won independence from British colonialists in 1947.
