Addressing Pakistan Army Chief, General Raheel Sharif, Saeed said, “After partition India sent its army forcibly to Jammu and Kashmir to which Quaid-i-Azam (Muhammad Ali Jinnah) told then (Pakistan) army chief to respond by sending forces too but he didn’t do so”.
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India had yesterday rejected Pakistan’s proposal to hold Foreign Secretary-level talks on Kashmir and made it clear that terrorism was “central” to its relations with Islamabad, whose different view and attitude has made it hard for bilateral ties to grow.
The UN and global 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, he said.
To a query regarding Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intrusive remarks on Balochistan, the foreign office spokesperson said those were violations of the UN Charter. At least 58 people were killed and several others injured, with both people and security forces turning hostile in protest-related violence in the Kashmir Valley, after Kashmiris took to the streets to condemn the killing of Wani.
Speaking in Lahore, Saeed said, “This time the people in Kashmir are on streets”.
Pakistan has reportedly offered India a bilateral arrangement asking its neighbour whether it would agree to a mutual ban on testing of nuclear atomic weapons.
The FO spokesperson said “Pakistan can not accept equating the rampant human rights violations in India-held Kashmir with the situation in AJK”. He said by mentioning Balochistan, the Indian Prime Minister has tried to deflect attention from what is happening in Occupied Kashmir. “What kind of government setup is it that is inspired by terrorism?” asked Modi, who delivered the open-air address amid a security lockdown in the Indian capital. For India it is also not easy to explain to its home audience how it was going to send its senior most diplomat to “hell”, as its Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar described Pakistan on Tuesday.
Aizaz Chaudhry had in his letter “highlighted the worldwide obligations of Pakistan and India with regards to resolving the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the United Nations Security Council resolutions”.
“We have made great efforts to reach out to Pakistan and find common ground”. And this is not just India’s view.
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She said the world needs to take note of the continuous breach of global law by its neighbouring state, as was brought to the limelight the arrest of the Indian naval officer on a spy mission in Baluchistan. It’s for the good of both countries; it’s for the good of the region.
