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ISLAMABAD, Jul 14 (APP): Pakistan on Thursday said the Kashmir
dispute had an international recognition and India, calling it an
internal matter, was making a “violation of UN Security Council
resolution”.
“Kashmir is a disputed matter with numerous UNSC resolutions
outstanding on its agenda that reiterate the call for plebiscite,”
the Foreign Office Spokesman said here at a weekly press briefing.
The statement came in response to the remarks by Indian
Ministry of External Affairs’ spokesman Vikas Swarup saying that
Pakistan should refrain from issuing statements on the recent unrest
in India-held Kashmir and stop interfering in the “internal affairs
of its neighbours”.
Spokesman Nafees Zakaria said the international community
recognized the Kashmiris’ movement for self-determination and it
were the Indian security forces in fact who were indulging in the
state-terrorism in Occupied Kashmir.
“They are terrorizing the people which is condemnable and even
targeting the ambulances and hospitals to deny treatment to
Kashmiris,” he said.
He said the indigenous movement of Kashmiris was for their
self-determination and was a resistance against the Indian
occupation of their territory.
He said nothing could deter Kashmiris’ resolve to continue
their struggle.
“Indian efforts to project Kashmiris movement as terrorism
through baseless accusations cannot succeed,” he said.
The Spokesman said Pakistan had briefed the representatives of
P5, European Union and OIC countries on the state of human rights
violations by India in held Kashmir.
To a question on how Pakistan and India could resolve the
Kashmir dispute, he said Pakistan believed that dialogue was the
best option.
He mentioned that despite several wars fought over Kashmir,
the dispute could not be resolved and recalled a statement by U.S
President Bill Clinton terming Kashmir a nuclear flashpoint of South
Asia.
“Pakistan is ready for dialogue and the international
community should urge upon India to come to the dialogue table,” he
said.