Nafees Zakaria says it is Delhi’s habit to blame Pakistan for everything
Pakistani nation and the armed forces are ready to defend the motherland at all costs, Foreign Office Spokesman Nafees Zakaria said while responding to questions at the weekly briefing in Islamabad on Thursday.
The spokesman said exercises of Pakistan Air Force were routine. He said Pakistan was a peaceful country and peaceful neighbourhood was the vision of the PM.
He said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in his address to the UN General Assembly urged the UN to implement its resolutions on Kashmir.
Responding to a question the spokesman strongly rejected Indian allegations of Pakistan involvement in Uri attack and pointed out that it has become a matter of habit in New Delhi to point accusing fingers towards Pakistan after every such incident in India. He said Pakistan has nothing to gain from such incidents and in fact these are part of the Indian attempt to divert the attention of the world community from its repression in Occupied Kashmir.
Referring to the continued gruesome brutalities of Indian occupation forces, the spokesman called upon the UN secretary general, UN Human Rights commissioner and the international community to take measures to stop the bloodshed in Occupied Kashmir. He said about 110 Kashmiris had been martyred, more than ten thousand injured and about 800 have lost their eyesight due to pellet gun use by occupation forces.
To a question, he said there was concrete evidence of Indian sponsored terrorism and terrorist financing in Pakistan, especially in Balochistan and Karachi. This was substantiated by confession of RAW agent Kulbhushan Yadev. The Recent statement of Indian prime minister was yet another proof of Indian involvement in terrorism and terror financing in Pakistan aimed at destabilising the country.
Commenting on reports that Brahmdagh Bugti was seeking political asylum in India, he said this only adds to the fact that India is deeply involved in terrorism in Balochistan.
He told a questioner that scores of countries of the world support right of self-determination of Kashmiri people. In this regard, he referred to the strong support always extended by 57-member OIC besides categorical statements of many other world leaders on the issue.
To yet another question, the spokesman said Pakistan was carrying out a comprehensive operation against all terrorists without any discrimination. Its results have been acknowledged and appreciated by the world community.
The spokesman referred to Indian media claims that prime minister of Nepal made negative remarks about Pakistan accusing it of involvement in terrorism. He said the office of the Nepalese prime minister had issued a statement rejecting these false claims. The statement said what Nepalese prime minister referred to during his interview with an Indian channel was about support of the government of Nepal in controlling Nepal-India cross-border criminal activities.
In a separate development, a senior Pakistani diplomat has rejected a claim by an Indian delegate that Pakistan was promoting terrorism in occupied Kashmir and elsewhere, saying the Kashmiri people’s uprising “was spontaneous and indigenous”.
The Indian delegate, Eenam Gambhir, made the accusation while exercising her right of reply to Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif’s forceful speech in the UN General Assembly in support of Kashmiri people.
“The Indian government has chosen to criticize the statement by the prime minister of Pakistan, which reflects the sentiments and aspirations of the oppressed people of Jammu and Kashmir, who have, for seventy years faced bullets, repression and the brutalities of illegal occupation,” Dr Muhammad Faisal, a director general in the Foreign office, said in the 193-member Assembly while reacting to some serious allegations leveled by Ms Gambhir.
“The dispute of Jammu and Kashmir cannot be wished away,” the Pakistani diplomat said. Pakistan, he said, would continue to stand by the people of Jammu and Kashmir and extend its full diplomatic and political support to their movement for freedom from Indian oppression.
“The cold-blooded murder of Burhan Wani sparked widespread and unprecedented protests across Kashmir, which was spontaneous and indigenous and was irrefutable evidence of the Kashmiri people’s rejection of Indian occupation,” Faisal told the General Assembly.
“But peaceful protesters were mercilessly fired upon, blinded and critically injured,” he said. “Yet, the use of brutal force cannot extinguish their burning aspiration. Every day young and old come, defying the curfew and dodging the bullets, only to assert their right to determine their own destiny.
“The right to self-determination has been promised to them by the international community through a series of Security Council resolutions. Although this promise has yet to be realised, seven decades later, time has not weakened their resolve, nor their aspirations. In fact, it remains active and vibrant in the hearts of the Kashmiris.’
The Pakistani diplomat said the Kashmiri people looked towards the international community, especially the members of the UN Security Council, to deliver on the pledge to hold a free, fair and impartial plebiscite under the UN auspices, to enable them to decide their future, a democratic and legal right of the Kashmiri people.