FO awaits details of Pak High Commissioner's summoning in New Delhi
Foreign Office cleared its stance within an hour of Basit's visit to the ministry
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Foreign Office is awaiting details about the summoning of Pakistani High Commissioner for the second time on Tuesday in past one week in connection with the ramped up tensions over attack on Brigade Headquarters in Uri this month.
In a statement, Spokesperson for the department, Nafees Zakaria has said that condemning violence at hands of Indian machinery on Kashmiris did not register as interference in country’s internal affairs.
Foreign Office cleared its stance within an hour of Basit’s visit to the Ministry of External Affairs.
Zakaria equivocally denied accepting Kashmir as an integral part of India as claimed by minister Sushma Swaraj in her United Nations General Assembly address.
Why Kashmir dispute was was there on the agenda of Security Council and there were resolutions of the United Nations regarding the occupied valley if it was India’s internal issue, the spokesperson raised question in response to Indian propaganda against Pakistan that has been sped up after attack in Baramulla District on September 11.
Zakaria cleared that Pakistan considered silence on brutality in Kashmir a crime.
He reiterated that Kashmiris could always draw political, diplomatic and ethical support from Pakistan.
The development has come in after Abdul Basit was summoned to the ministry today in what appeared to be an intrusive diplomatic move, considering it was the second time in a week.
India has apparently considered war with Pakistan an option after Uri attack as it shifted artillery to front trenches along the Line of Control a week ago.
India has been occupying Kashmir valley for over seven decades, refusing to act upon resolutions of the United Nations Organisation which on various occasions in the past has had called for the resolution of the dispute between the two sides.
UNGA sessions
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif addressed the 71st session of the General Assembly of the United Nations earlier this month which was hailed by the father of late Kashmiri freedom fighter, Burhan Wani, a youth who laid his life down in freedom movement of Kashmir.
Sharif’s speech in the General Assembly marked historic development in Pakistan s agenda of freeing Kashmiris of Indian violence.
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However, External Affairs Minister unsuccessfully attempted yesterday to counter Pakistani premier s comprehensive speech in the United Nations General Assembly.
Resorting to decades-long Indian propaganda of brushing the dispute under the carpet by succumbing to venomous tendencies against Pakistan, Sushma Swaraj, claimed right to Kashmir valley and dubbed it as an integral part of India.
