Islamabad: Pakistan has rejected the “unwarranted remarks” by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs’ (EAM) official spokesperson regarding Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s joint press conference with his German counterpart in Berlin wherein the two spoke about the United Nations’ role in resolving the Kashmir dispute.
In the press conference, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said, “Germany has a role and responsibility with regard to the situation in Kashmir.
Therefore, we support intensively the engagement of the UN, to find peaceful resolutions in the region.” While the views expressed by the Foreign Ministers explained the growing urgency and concern in the international community on the Kashmir dispute, MEA’s gratuitous remarks have exposed the desperation of a country that finds itself increasingly isolated on the issue of its illegal occupation of Jammu and Kashmir and the reprehensible human rights violations being perpetrated by its ruthless occupation force in the occupied territory.
FO said that India’s tendency to hoist the “bogey of cross-border terrorism” whenever there was a call for increased scrutiny of its actions in IIOJK is “well known”. India’s credentials as a purveyor of state-terrorism in the IIOJK and as an instigator of cross-border terrorism in Pakistan need no reiteration.
The FO said while rebuffing Bagchi’s remarks, “Hollow denials and evasion of responsibility will no longer cover-up India’s mischievous strategy of posing as a ‘victim’ of terrorism while shifting blame elsewhere.” Pakistan’s achievements and contribution to the cause of counterterrorism are globally acknowledged. On the contrary, India’s allusion to FATF, displaying its characteristic bias, hostility and partiality towards Pakistan, corroborates Pakistan’s long-standing view that India has been politicizing FATF and trying to misuse its membership of FATF to target Pakistan.
FATF needs to take note of the irresponsible statement by India. Pakistan urges the international community, particularly human rights and humanitarian organizations to condemn India’s barbaric state-terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir and ensure that Kashmiris are given their right to self-determination as enshrined in the relevant UNSC resolutions and as per their own wishes.
