National News

ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT+APP): Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif,
Thursday terming Kashmir an unfinished agenda of sub-continent’s
partition said that Pakistan would never abandon Kashmiris in their
freedom struggle.
“The world in general and India in particular should know that
Pakistani nation would never abandon their Kashmiri brethren and
would continue to support them in their just and UN-mandated freedom
struggle, the Prime Minister said while chairing a meeting on the
incident of firing at passenger bus by Indian security forces near
Neelum valley.
The Prime Minister said that Pakistan had exercised maximum
restraint despite the continuing ceasefire violations by Indian
security forces along Line of Control (LoC).
He urged upon the international community to take note of
deliberate targeting of civilians and said the intentional targeting
of innocent civilians particularly children and women, ambulances
and civilian transport could not be tolerated.
The Prime Minister emphasized that international community
needed to play its active role in diffusing deteriorating security
situation along the LoC.
The Prime Minister was briefed by Advisor to PM on Foreign
Affairs Sartaj Aziz, DG ISI Lt.Gen. Rizwan Akhtar, Special Assistant
on Foreign Affairs Tariq Fatemi and National Security Advisor
Lt.Gen. (retd) Nasser Khan Janjua on the prevailing situation along
LoC particularly after the unprovoked ceasefire violations on
November 23 by the Indian occupation forces in Dhudnial sector.
The meeting reiterated its condemnation of the bus massacre
and re-affirmed its political, diplomatic and moral support to the
people of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir in their just and
legitimate struggle for their right to self-determination in
accordance with the UNSC resolutions.
The meeting paid rich tributes to the jawans of the country’s
armed forces who laid down their lives yesterday while defending
their motherland.
The meeting deplored the belligerent targeting of the
ambulance which was rescuing the victims of the bus attack, as a
blatant violation of International Humanitarian Law.
The meeting agreed that India was deliberately trying to
divert the attention of the international community from the grave
human rights violations, massacres and atrocities being committed by
the Indian security forces against the innocent and defenceless
Kashmiris in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry and other senior
government officials also attended the meeting.