Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Pakistan on Thursday ruled out the possibility of the talks with India until the latter restored an “enabling environment” by ending the continuous human rights violations in the occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
“No meaningful engagement with India is possible in a situation where Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir suffers a consistent plight of human rights,” Foreign Office Spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said at a week press briefing.
The spokesperson was responding to a query regarding a recent interview of Prime Minister’s Special Assistant on National Security Dr Moeed Yusuf with an Indian journalist, where he mentioned that India had conveyed intention for a dialogue with Pakistan.
The FO spokesperson said Pakistan demanded India to “reverse the illegal repealing of Article 35A of its Constitution”, terming it a move based on mala fide to change demography of Kashmir. The reversal could lead to a favourable environment for holding of a fair plebiscite in the Valley, he added.
Since India’s illegal and unilateral actions of August 5 last year, he said, the Indian occupation forces in brazen manifestation of state-terrorism had martyred over 300 Kashmiris. He mentioned that more than 600 Kashmiri youth were subjected to custodial torture, while 134 received serious pellet gun injuries during January 1 to September 30.
He called upon the international community, including the United Nations, human rights organizations and the global media to take immediate cog-nizance of the aggravating situation in the IIOJK.
“The indigenous resistance movement of the Kashmiris for their inalienable right to self-determination, as enshrined in the relevant UN Security Council resolutions, will only become stronger in the face of Indian state-terrorism,” he said. He said the statement demonstrates an inexcusable lack of self-awareness of
RSS-BJP regime’s self-serving narrative. He said it is also another manifestation of the Indian government’s incurable obsession with Pakistan. The Spokesperson also condemned the malicious Indian propaganda against the longstanding, close Pakistan-China friendship.
