Sartaj Aziz said Pakistan has written to the UN Human Rights Council on human rights violations and the Council has conveyed to India that it wants to send a fact-finding mission to Occupied Kashmir.
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“It has also been emphasized to our worldwide interlocutors that Indian security forces exercised extraordinary restraint, as evident in injury to over 3780 security personnel in mob attacks during violent protests in Jammu & Kashmir”.
Armed with the confessional statement of an alleged Pakistani LeT operative, NIA yesterday blamed the banned terror organisation for fuelling the continuing unrest in Kashmir. He told NIA officers that Pakistani military officers had come to meet him while he was leaving for India.
Seeking support of all political parties, the Prime Minister said, “When terrorism is on the rise across the world and when we are encircled by terrorism sponsored by the neighbouring country, then we will have to be united in this fight”.
Please enter your email. “PM said that the time has come for Pakistan to answer the world, on atrocities against people in Balochistan and PoK”, Rajnath Singh said. Modi says that we all love Kashmir, but this I would say is one-sided.
Two days after Home Minister Rajnath Singh told the Parliament that dialogue with Pakistan will only be on Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and that there was no question of talks on Kashmir, Pakistan today said that Islamabad will “soon write to New Delhi, inviting it for a dialogue on the Kashmir issue”.
The meeting that deliberated at length to discuss ways of cooling the prevailing tensions in the Kashmir valley, which had erupted after the killing of terrorist Burhan Wani on July 8 by security forces, was of the firm view to make efforts to win the confidence of the people.
Opposition leaders have also stepped up calls for an all-party delegation to visit Kashmir for talks with regional leaders.
“It is equally an imperative that urgent steps are taken to restore order and peace for the alleviation of the sufferings of the people”, it said.
Sartaj Aziz, advisor to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, further emphasised that Islamabad will continue to support the Kashmiri people for their “self determination”, Aziz was quoted as saying in a foreign office statement.
Azad’s party colleague and former Jammu and Kashmir governor Karan Singh said the government and the house should “introspect why thousands of youths have embarked on a path of destruction” in the valley.
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He made the observation while participating in a debate in Rajya Sabha over the situation in Kashmir. The meeting is also to be a message to Pakistan as well as the global community that opposition parties stand with the Modi Government as one on this tough stance.
