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Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday welcomed the UN Security Council’s decision to discuss tensions in the disputed region of Kashmir, a day after India slammed the rare meeting.
Tensions have soared since India earlier this month stripped the part of Kashmir that it controls of its autonomy, sparking calls from Pakistan for the international community to intervene on the decades-old issue. “I welcome the UNSC meeting to discuss the serious situation in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir”, Khan tweeted after Friday’s talks in New York, the first to focus on the Himalayan region since 1971.
“Addressing the suffering of the Kashmiri people & ensuring resolution of the dispute is the responsibility of this world body”, he said.
Foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Pakistan was establishing Kashmir desks in foreign capitals to “lobby for Kashmiris and their right to self-determination”.
The country’s armed forces would be ready to give a “telling response” to any act of “misadventure” by India in the wake of the UN meeting, he told a Saturday press conference alongside military spokesman Asif Ghafoor.
Major General Asif Ghafoor on Saturday also linked the issue of Kashmir with Pakistan’s security and asked world leaders to take a note of the irresponsible statement made by the Indian defence minister.
“Pakistan is a responsible state but India has always threatened us. Responsible states do not make statements like Rajnath Singh’s,” said DG ISPR and added that more troops were being sent to the Line of Control (LoC) as a deterrence.
Rejecting Indian propaganda that Pakistan was supporting infiltration inside occupied Kashmir, the military spokesperson said, “Indian-administered Kashmir has been turned into a prison by the occupying forces.”
“India is resorting to such propaganda to carry out a false flag operation. Pakistan’s armed forces would be ready to give a telling response to any act of misadventure by India in the wake of the UN meeting.” The DG ISPR also thanked the nation for being united on social media for a national cause.
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