India slams Burhan Wani reference in Nawaz Sharif’s UNGA speech

Sharif, who had invoked the Kashmir issue in his speech in 2014, stayed off the topic past year focusing on development.

Wani, arguably Kashmir’s most influential militant commander in recent times, was the root of the social media-driven psychological warfare in the disputed state.

In his speech at the United Nations on Wednesday, Sharif described slain Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani as a “young leader” and said India is attaching pre-conditions for peace talks around Kashmir. He described him “the young leader murdered by Indian forces”.

Calls for a military response have increased since the Uri attack, particularly from some politicians within Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party.

Wani is a “self-declared commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen”, Akbar said. “Similar false promises it has made to us – the worldwide community? on terrorism. Pakistan is not engaged in arms race but we can not ignore neighbours’ arms build-up and will take whatever measures necessary to counter their arms build-up”.

Swarup said that Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar had told Basit that the nature and frequency of infiltration from across the Line of Control of heavily armed terrorists belies the claim of the Pakistani army that the border has “water-tight arrangements” from the Pakistani side.

Earlier, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at the United Nations General Assembly said India is imposing unacceptable conditions for talks over Kashmir with Pakistan. “The world has not yet forgotten that the trail of that dastardly attack led all the way to Abbottabad in Pakistan”, she said.

“Where is the question of the extra mile?” “Talks and guns don’t go together”.

Aziz said the Prime Minister met eight heads of state and three members of the UN Security Council and apprised them of the current situation in Indian Held Kashmir and brutalities of Indian forces on innocent Kashmiris.

“Over a hundred Kashmiris have been killed”.

He added the world also knows that Pakistan has indulged in ethnic cleansing of its own people. “Thought process is on to isolate Pakistan on the economic front in view of their consistent support to acts of terror”, he said. In reply Indian ambassador Alok Ranjan Jha lashed out at Pakistani envoy by replying them that “the country torturing Balochi people should not be crying for human rights violations in our territory”.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday expressed the resolve that war against terror will be taken to its logical end.

“What my country and our other neighbours are facing today is Pakistan’s long-standing policy of sponsoring terrorism, the consequences of which have spread well beyond our region”, she said.

The Pakistan Mission released a statement saying that Sharif gave a dossier to Ban containing information of alleged atrocities in Kashmir.