India, Pakistan spar over Kashmir

That has not prevented violent protests and rioting from breaking out when security forces killed Burhan Wani, a separatist militant commander and a Kashmiri, last Friday.

Thousands of people rallied in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (Pok) on Friday to protest the deadly clashes between the people and Indian security forces in Kashmir.

An orchard was also attacked on suspicion that some people in the area had given Indian forces information about Wani’s whereabouts.

Local newspapers failed to hit the stands for the second consecutive day today in curfew-bound Kashmir after the governments alleged “clampdown” on the media.

Trudeau said the United States would not support any call for increasing tension in the region. Pakistan denies India’s accusations that it arms and trains Kashmiri rebels. Since the 1990s, more than 68,000 people have been killed in Kashmir’s uprising against Indian rule and the subsequent Indian military crackdown.

Pak Cabinet calls for “black day” over violence in Kashmir; likens clashes in Kashmir to Gujarat riots of 2002. Insisting that Pakistan had no locus standi in what was essentially a domestic issue, the MEA spokesperson said, “Continued glorification of terrorists belonging to proscribed terrorist organisations makes it amply clear where Pakistan’s sympathies continue to lie”. India’s Foreign Ministry said Friday that it was dismayed by Pakistan’s attempt to “interfere in our internal matters”.

There is “no Kashmir issue” between India and Pakistan, Union minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday said and asserted that the only outstanding matter is how to retrieve the part of Jammu and Kashmir which remains under illegal occupation of the neighbouring country.

Pakistan has said that it will observe July 20 as “black day” to express solidarity with Kashmiris against the Indian barbarism in the Kashmir Valley instead of July 19 that was declared earlier.

“We also hope that Pakistan will respond constructively to India’s initiatives for peace and normalising the India Pakistan relationship”, he added. Later, the demonstrators criticised Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for keeping quiet over the killing spree in Kashmir due to his good relations with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi.

The Prime Minister, who recently returned from London after an open-heart surgery, had said that it was “deplorable that excessive and unlawful force was used against the civilians” who were protesting against the killing of Wani.