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Only Kashmiris can decide the future of Kashmir, Aziz tells Swaraj
[DAWN] Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj PrunefaceAziz  ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in goodjihadis and badjihadis as a matter of national policy... , reacting to Indian Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj’s statement on Kashmire, stated on Sunday that a verdict on the future of Kashmire can only be given by the people of Kashmire. "Such a verdict on the future of Kashmire can only be given by the people of Kashmire and not by the External Affairs Minister of India." Only Kashmiris can decide the future of Kashmire, Aziz tells Swaraj Aziz added the right to self-determination has been given to the people of Kashmire by the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Security Council. "It is high time that India allowed the people of Jammu and Kashmire to exercise this right through a free and fair UN supervised plebiscite," stated the foreign affair adviser. Aziz further said the world will accept the decision taken by the Kashmiri people, and it is their choice to either integrate with Pakistain or India. Swaraj had also disagreed with Pakistain terming Burhan Wani, a Hizbul Mujahideen separatist commander, as a martyr and stated Wani was a wanted terrorist. "India cannot ignore the fact that over 200,000 Kashmiris participated in the funeral prayers of Burhan Muzaffar Wani in 50 different locations throughout Indian-occupied Kashmire, despite strict curfew which still continues 15 days after Wani’s extrajudicial murder on 8 July 2016," replied Aziz to Swaraj’s earlier statement. "Let us not forget, as one Indian writer has reminded us, that not long ago the British labelled Indian freedom fighters as traitors and faceless myrmidons because at that time India was considered an integral part of the British Empire," added Aziz. Posted by: Fred 2016-07-25 |
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