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In response to talks plan, India lists issues that must be resolved first
[DAWN] India, responding to Pakistain’s plan to discuss Jammu and Kashmire, has given its list of issues that must be addressed before any progress is possible.Reports on Saturday quoted India’s foreign ministry as responding to the statement by Foreign Policy Adviser 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... to invite India for dialogue on Jammu and Kashmire. The ministry claimed Delhi welcomed dialogue on relevant issues and at this time it included stoppage of "Pak-supported cross-border terrorism". In a statement, the ministry said: "Would welcome dialogue on relevant issues in India-Pakistain relations and at this time it includes stoppage of Pak-supported cross-border terrorism." Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup said that before the start of a dialogue Pakistain must address "incitement to violence and terrorism across the border, parading of internationally recognised forces of Evil like Hafiz Saeed  ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... and Syed Salahuddin, and sincere follow up on the Mumbai attack trial and the Pathankot attack investigation". Days after India insisted that it would discuss only Azad Kashmire with Pakistain, Mr Aziz had said on Friday that Pakistain planned to invite India for a dialogue on the Kashmire issue. "Our foreign secretary would formally be writing to his counterpart in this regard," Mr Aziz had said as he briefed the media about the Envoys Conference held on August 1-3 to deliberate on major foreign policy challenges faced by Pakistain and make recommendations. He said the conference had spent considerable time on the grim situation in Kashmire. Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Irene was indignant at the thought of doing such a thing without benefit of clergy... External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said: "Unlike in the past we cannot agree that dialogue with sponsor and supporters of terrorism should carry on without being linked to action in that regard." She was obliquely referring to Pakistain. "Threat of terrorism dominates global concerns today. It is an issue which has confronted Indian diplomacy for many years because of its cross-border manifestation," she said. "At the international level we are also putting the spotlight on early conclusion of a comprehensive convention on international terrorism," she added. Posted by: Fred 2016-08-15 |
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