“Peace and normalization between Pakistan and India can not be achieved without a resolution of the Kashmir dispute”.
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Coming down heavily on Pakistan in the wake of the Uri terror attack, the United States has asked Islamabad to cooperate with New Delhi in probing the attack.
Insisting that peace and normalisation between Pakistan and India can not be achieved without a resolution of the Kashmir dispute, Sharif made a number of allegations with regard to the current unrest in the valley. He also called for a United Nations fact-finding mission to investigate brutalities perpetrated by the Indian occupying forces in IHK.
First secretary to the Indian permanent mission to the UN Eenam Gambhir responding to Nawaz Sharif’s speech.
India’s portion of Kashmir has been under a major security lockdown during more than two months of protests sparked by the July 8 killing by Indian security forces of Burhan Wani, a popular young commander of the Kashmiri separatist group Hizbul Mujahideen, whose leader is based in Pakistan.
“How could a dialogue succeed when India would impose preconditions that were not acceptable to Pakistan?”
“Pakistan is a terrorist state which channelises billions of dollars, much of it diverted from global aid, to raining, financing and supporting terrorist groups as militant proxies against its neighbours”, Gambhir said on India’s behalf.
Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar summoned Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit and told him that latest terrorist attack in Uri only underlines that the infrastructure of terrorism in Pakistan remains active. “This is self-incrimination by Pakistan PM”, Akbar said. “We condemn terrorism in all its forms and manifestation”, the Prime Minister reiterated.
He also reminded Basit that the Pakistan government had made a solemn commitment in January 2004 to not allow its soil or territory under its control to be used for terrorism against India.
India has long accused Pakistan of playing a role in the 27-year-long insurgency against its rule in Jammu and Kashmir, its only Muslim-majority state.
Pakistan is a “terrorist state”+, the “Ivy League of terrorism”, a country with a “democracy deficit” that “practices terrorism on its own people” and a country that indulges in a “war crime”. The people of Pakistan are paying the price of a malevolent policy”, he said”.
“Pakistan, whose nuclear proliferation record is marked by deception and deceit, (is) talking about restraint, renunciation and peace”, Gambhir said.
On Sharif’s praise for Burhan Wani, Gambhir said, “It [Pakistan] extends support to extremist groups, it suppresses minorities and women and denies basic human rights through draconian laws”.
Troops of India and Pakistan Tuesday targeted each other’s positions on the Line of Control (LoC), dividing Kashmir, the reports said.
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The Pakistani leader sought steps to be taken by the United Nations to “de-militarise” Jammu and Kashmir and undertake consultations with India, Pakistan and the “true representatives” of the Kashmiri people to implement the resolutions of the Security Council.
