“While welcoming any UN team that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights may wish to send” to PoK, “we can not accept equating the rampant human rights violations” in Kashmir with the situation in PoK, the Foreign Office said.
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“Modi said as much during the all-party meeting on Kashmir recently, and I think that’s a clever formulation”, Bhushan said.
He said most of the UN Security Council members had already been taken onboard on the continued violation of human rights in Indian-held Kashmir.
“Pakistan has encouraged terrorism, and now they are facing consequences of that policy”, he said.
Zakaria said the United Nations and worldwide community should remind India that it must fulfil its commitment to give the right of self-determination to the people of Jammu and Kashmir as per Security Council resolutions.
“We need to understand the context in which the prime minister made the statements”.
The Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan was called by Chaudhry on Monday and handed over an invitation addressed to Jaishankar, the Foreign Office said.
According to details, locals living in Chaman, Dalbadin, Sibi and Nushki took to the street against Indian interference in Balochistan and statement of Modi.
The move came as relations between Pakistan and India remain strained a day after ceasefire violations along the Line of Control on August 14.
New Delhi in turn accused Islamabad of exporting “international terrorism, cross-border infiltrators, weapons, narcotic and fake currency”.
Calling the statement by the Indian Prime Minister on Balochistan, a positive development, he said that the “policy of indifference towards Pakistan’s war crimes in occupied Balochistan that include both ethnic cleansing and genocide, adapted by the worldwide community is worrying”.
The Chief Minister said that a few persons, playing in the hands of enemies of Pakistan, were involved in acts of terrorism to target innocent people of the province. “I want to offer my gratitude to these people”.
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Zakaria said UN Secretary General has also expressed concern over the situation in occupied Kashmir, where Indian forces are committing state terrorism.
