ISLAMABAD, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Wednesday called upon India to rescind its unilateral action of August 5, 2019 on Jammu and Kashmir and end all instruments of oppressions and state-terrorism.<\/p>\n
\u201cIndia must respect the United Nations Security Council\u2019s (UNSC) resolutions and let the Kashmiris exercise their right to self-determination,\u201d the foreign minister said in his address at the Islamabad Policy Research Institute.<\/p>\n
Qureshi said India in a state of \u201cpower drunkenness\u201d had embarked upon a Hitlerian final solution for the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n
He termed the August 5 decision on Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) a beginning of intensification of the tsunami of Indian state-terrorism.<\/p>\n
He mentioned that the resolutions of the UNSC, at which India covets a permanent seat, were cast aside and no tool of cruelty was deemed excessive by the world\u2019s so-called largest democracy.<\/p>\n
The foreign minister said two years on, the Kashmiris continued to languish in the \u201clargest concentration camp on the planet\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn top of that, they are being held incommunicado. They do not have access to regular or even emergency medical facilities \u2013 a plight not shared even by the worst criminals,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n
He said even COVID-19, which generated unprecedented empathy in the human race, had done nothing to bring even an iota of relief to the Kashmiris.<\/p>\n
India, he said, was trying to eliminate Kashmiris altogether as the young men were disappearing without a trace.<\/p>\n
New domicile rules and land laws had been thrust upon the Kashmiris to reengineer IIOJK\u2019s demography, he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn its delusion of grandeur, India expected the world and more pertinently Pakistan, to acquiesce,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Qureshi said Pakistan, guided by the clarity of Prime Minister Imran Khan\u2019s vision, stood its ground and focused on rousing the international community.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am happy to note that our efforts have not been in vain. The Security Council has discussed the Jammu & Kashmir dispute thrice since August 2019,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He said the world leaders, parliamentarians, media, humanists and civil society at large had understood that \u201cbeyond the smokescreen of Indian sophistry, lies Kashmiris\u2019 perpetual nightmare\u201d.<\/p>\n
Qureshi said that the government of Pakistan was absolutely clear that it would continue to lend moral, political and diplomatic support to Kashmiris.<\/p>\n
He called upon the international community to exhort India to \u201ctreat Kashmiris like human beings\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis will pull out the dagger, which rankles in the heart of bilateral and regional peace and bodes ill for international peace and security,\u201d he said, adding that it would also unlock the potential of South Asia.<\/p>\n
Qureshi said Pakistan was shifting focus from geo-politics to geo-economics and wanted peace with India, but not at the expense of the Kashmiris.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hope Indian leadership will prefer statesmanship over populism,\u201d he said, and added that together, it could weaken the extremist narrative through a genuine pacific settlement of a festering dispute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Wednesday called upon India to rescind its unilateral action of August 5, 2019 on Jammu and Kashmir and end all instruments of oppressions and state-terrorism. \u201cIndia must respect the United Nations Security Council\u2019s (UNSC) resolutions and let the […]<\/p>\n
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