Parrikar, who later flagged off the “Tiranga Yatra” organised to mark the country’s 70th Independence Day, said Pakistan has always been “promoting” terrorism and the nation is now bearing its consequences.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi should first account for the alleged “atrocities” committed by India in Kashmir before talking about Balochistan, Pakistan’s main Opposition leader Bilawal Bhutto said on Wednesday and vowed to maintain the country’s sovereignty at every cost.
Trudeau, however, refused to comment on Prime Minister Modi’s recent remarks on Pakistan. Nobody has the right to interfere in its affairs.
Hours after Pakistan handed over the formal letter, Washington said that it supported all positive steps that India and Pakistan can take to forge closer ties but pointed out that it will not influence pace, scope and character of discussions on the issue. Indian reports say Mr Singh was snubbed by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and during the visit, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif publicly spoke of “the freedom movement” in Kashmir in remarks New Delhi believes were created to provoke India.
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”.
“We have been asking the government to find a political solution to the Kashmir issue”. We asked the government to call an all-party meeting. “The issue cannot be treated just as a law and order problem”, he said.
The CPI (M) denounced Modi for blaming Pakistan for the Kashmir problem instead of finding solutions to it. At this time they include a stoppage of Pakistani support for cross-border terrorism, infiltration of terrorists like Bahadur Ali. Human rights are being violated across India with fringe right-wing groups carrying out brutal attacks on Dalits and other minorities.
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Terming the Modi government as a “multi-faced” monster, he said one of them hurts people with its economic policies, another with “communal” politics, the third one by practising authoritarianism, and the fourth one with foreign policies.
