Confused Indian military targets helicopter of AJK premier
The white civil helicopter was flying atop Pakistan's airspace when it was shot at by Indian army.
MUZAFFARABAD (Dunya News) – The helicopter of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider was reportedly fired upon when it was flying atop Pakistan’s airspace Sunday.
According to details, the AJK prime minister had been travelling to offer condolences on the demise of an acquaintance when his white civil helicopter was shot at from an Indian checkpost.
It is mandatory for Pakistan and India to inform each other beforehand the movement of military aircrafts. The procedure, however, is not a prerequisite for the movement of civil helicopters.
Later, the white helicopter, confused with a Pakistani military chopper by the Indian military, carrying AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Farooq Haider landed safely.
India last week called off the meeting between the nuclear-armed neighbours’ foreign ministers, planned for the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
Prime Minister Imran Khan labelled India arrogant for cancelling what would have been the countries’ first high-level talks in years, decrying “small men occupying big offices” who opposed change.
“Disappointed at the arrogant and negative response by India to my call for resumption of the peace dialogue,” Imran Khan wrote on his official account.
“However, all my life I have come across small men occupying big offices who do not have the vision to see the larger picture.”
And at the UN General Assembly session, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi lambasted India for gross human rights violations in Indian occupied Kashmir.
Qureshi said the recent report of United Nations had removed veil from “appalling crimes” of India in Kashmir and supported Pakistan’s stance that violence was in no way solution to any problem.
“[Pakistan’s] Eastern neighbour [India] is sponsoring terrorism. Pakistan will never forget martyrs of APS and Mastung,” he added.
He stated that India resorted to unprovoked firing along the Line of Control in its bid to divert attention of international community from the atrocities in the violence-hit Kashmir valley.
