Islamabad: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Wednesday cautionedIndia that Pakistan would strongly resist any move to revoke theconstitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir.
Addressing a press conference along with Chairman Kashmir Committee SyedFakhar Imam following the special meeting of parliamentary committee onKashmir held at Foreign Office, Qureshi said the parliament of Pakistan wasunanimous on the stance that there could be no change of status of Jammuand Kashmir.
The Article 370 of the Indian constitution gives special status to occupiedKashmir and the Bharatia Janta Party had pledged to revoke it aftersecuring the second consecutive term in government.
Foreign Minister Qureshi said Pakistan would oppose any attempt thatviolated the resolutions of United Nations Security Council on Kashmir.
He said there had been opposition on the issue in India and an All PartiesConference minus BJP had been demanded by several politicians to settle theissue.
Qureshi said Pakistan had a state policy on Kashmir, which was not affectedwith the change of governments.
He said Prime Minister Imran Khan during his visit to the upcoming sessionof UN General Assembly at New York in September would interact with worldleaders and highlight the issue of Kashmir.
He said India in 1948 had approached the UNSC and had agreed to holdplebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir, however later turned the valley into the”most militarized zone of the world”.
He expressed serious concern over reports that India had deployed another10,000 troops in the occupied territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Qureshi said Kashmir dispute was the major impediment in attaining peace inSouth Asia and mentioned that India was persistently avoiding dialogue withPakistan to resolve all the outstanding issues.
He recalled that BJP during the recently held general elections used the”Pakistan card” and the incident of Pulwama incident to play withpolitical sentiments of masses.
The foreign minister expressed satisfaction that international communityhad started realizing the gravity of human rights violations in IndianOccupied Kashmir and endorsed Pakistan”s stance of holding an inquiry.
He urged the human rights organizations of Pakistan to also come forwardand highlight the blatant atrocities in IoK at their platforms.
He said India did not seem to let the leadership of All Parties HurriyatConference to engage in the process of finding solution to Kashmir dispute.
On Afghanistan, he said Pakistan was committed to peace in the conflict-hitcountry and was ready to facilitate the process aimed at bringing stabilityin the region.
He said Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad would soon visit Pakistan to discusswith the stakeholders the peace process.
Chairman Kashmir Committee Syed Fakhar Imam said the offer of the U.
S president Donald Trump to mediate on Kashmir issue was a ”silverlining”.
He said Pakistan needed to approach the Permanent Five countries andconvince their leadership on the significance of resolving the Kashmirissue for attaining sustainable peace in South Asia.
He said India had been insisting to resolve all matters with Pakistan onbilateral basis, however it avoided any such effort by Pakistan.
On delimitation of 88 seats of the Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly,Fakhar Imam said any such attempt by India to change Kashmir”sconstitutional status would not be acceptable.
He mentioned that the international community should take notice of thetyranny of Indian security forces in IoK where over 0.1 million had beenmartyred including women and children.