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India-Pakistan
Zarif reaffirms Iran's support for Kashmiris as Pakistan continues diplomatic push to highlight issue
2019-09-04
[DAWN] As part of the government's push to highlight the suffering of the Kashmiri people ‐ who have been enduring a strict lockdown in Indian Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
e since the Indian government took away their special autonomy last month ‐ Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi
...a Pak political shape-changer. He is undistinguished except for his habit of periodically needing to have his lips reattached...
on Tuesday called his Iranian, Ottoman Turkish and Bangladeshi counterparts to discuss the situation in the restive region.

The minister briefed each of his counterparts on the "illegal and unilateral actions" taken by India to alter occupied Kashmir's disputed status, underlining that the measures taken "posed threats to peace and stability in the region".

Speaking about the worsening human rights
...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you...
situation, Qureshi informed them that the complete lockdown in the valley has now entered its fifth week, resulting in immense suffering as people are unable to access hospitals, medicines and food supplies.

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif reiterated his country's concern over the deteriorating human rights situation in Indian Kashmire and reaffirmed support for the Kashmiri people, a statement released by the Foreign Office said.

Earlier in August, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
...Iran's moderate president, which he is, relative to his predecessor, which doesn't mean he's anything but a puppet of the nearest holy man...
, during a telephonic conversation with Prime Minister Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality disorders...
, had expressed concern over the "atrocities and killing of innocent people in occupied Jammu and Kashmir".

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Posted by:Fred

#1  The only innocent killing has so far been a bus driver the islamic separatists mistook for a cop and stoned to death.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-09-04 04:53  

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