The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) fighter jets hovered over Islamabad and Rawalpindi on Friday as tension between Pakistan and India increased following the Uri attack in Occupied Kashmir.
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He said that, on the contrary, virtually every country has referred to terrorism as the main threat to worldwide peace and security, a fact that Pakistan still remains in denial of.
The source said that there were reports that India might go for a terrorist attack in Balochistan through its proxies while using the Afghan soil. The attack, carried out by four terrorists India insists were Pakistani, left 18 soldiers dead. But India is campaigning to divert attention to the popular uprising in Kashmir by blaming Pakistan.
“India is very frustrated and it could do something rash, such as launching surgical strikes”, he said. Maleeha Lodhi, who is a political scientist, diplomat, columnist, strategist and first Pakistan woman to become country’s envoy at United Nations, failed to lay a strong pitch for Pakistan’s counter attack despite known the fact that India would not leave any chance to isolate their country at the global platform. “When practised as an instrument of state policy it is a war crime”.
India has said the militants who attacked the military base had come from Pakistan and belonged to Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), headed by Masood Azhar – the militant commander released in exchange for passengers of an Indian Airlines flight hijacked to Afghanistan in December 1999. Tensions eventually cooled after intensive worldwide diplomacy.
Sharif said that instead of hurling accusations on Pakistan, India should stop its “atrocities”, claiming that it is involved in “serious human rights violations” in Kashmir.
The Prime Minister said government framed policies aimed at providing an enabling environment for private, local and foreign businesses to thrive. The Marxist leader asked government to launch full-fledged attempt internationally to pressure Pakistan against “harbouring” terrorists.
In a Wednesday speech at the U.N. General Assembly, Sharif strongly criticized India’s suppression of protests in Kashmir, calling for an independent inquiry into killings there and a U.N. fact-finding mission to investigate what he called India’s “brutalities”.
“The land of Taxila, one of the greatest learning centres of ancient times, is now host to the Ivy League of terrorism”, Gambhir said, Thursday morning India time.
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Shah said the instability in South Asia is due to lingering of Kashmir issue and that “only the (Kashmir) resolution can put an end to war-like atmosphere in the region”.
