Pak PM Nawaz Sharif raises Kashmir issue in United Nations speech

“This was exactly what was discussed and determined by both Prime Ministers at Ufa this July”.

He also said that Pakistan had handed over dossiers to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon containing “evidence” of Indian involvement in terrorism in the country and links of its security agencies with the Tehrik-e-Taliban in Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

According to details of the gathering shared by Director General of the Inter-Services Public Relations Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa on Twitter, the army chief said that “Indian intransigence and the violations at Line of Control are negatively affecting the region”.

Yesterday, the prime minister had used his address to the UNGA to propose four peace measures, which include demilitarising of Kashmir and an unconditional withdrawal of troops from the Siachen glacier.

Social media voices have backed India after Pakistan’s Prime Minister raised the Kashmir issue at the UN General Assembly even as a former top Pakistani diplomat tweeted that Nawaz Sharif’s speech “plays well at home” but is “not taken seriously by the rest of the world”. “The blood that has been shed – including that of our innocent children – has reinforced our resolve to eliminate this scourge from our society” Sharif said.

Speaking of “the challenges that we face in our ties with Pakistan”, Swaraj referred to the terrorism threat from it and the impunity it grants terrorists like the matermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

His remarks came in reference to the allegations leveled by the Afghan and Indian leadership, saying that Pakistan caused the terrorist activities in their countries.

The takeaway from External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s aggressive response to Pakistan in her address at the United Nations General Assembly is that India has discarded the strategy of veiled attacks in the UN on its troublesome western neighbour.

United Nations: Bluntly calling Pakistan a “prime sponsor of terrorism”, India strongly hit back at Islamabad, asserting de-militarising Kashmir is not the answer for achieving peace but “deterrorising” Pakistan is, as it uses terror as a “legitimate instrument” of its statecraft.

Rejecting Indian claims on Kashmir dispute, the Pakistani diplomat said India’s attempts to deny its illegal occupation of Jammu and Kashmir is a travesty of history.

About the situation in Afghanistan, he said Pakistan had serious concern over the developments, especially following the attack on Kunduz, the strategic Northern Afghan city, he said Pakistan stood for peace and stability in Afghanistan and looked forward to resumption of the Afghan-led and Afghan-owned reconciliation process.