Indian Occupied Kashmir is a flame waiting to burst: Pak Official

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2016-08-17T10:01:06+05:00 News Desk

ISLAMABAD (APP): Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Syed Tariq Fatemi Tuesday said the world capitals no longer accept India's false propaganda over the Occupied Kashmir, because through use of barbaric military

force, it could not suppress an indigenous freedom struggle.

During a current affairs programme telecast by PTV, he said India failed to accept the ground realities by repeatedly betraying Kashmiris' confidence over their right to self determination.

It had miserably failed to mislead the world as the major capitals of the world were aware of the ground situation prevailing in the occupied valley, he added.

"They want India to immediately cease its aggression and negotiate with the Kashmiri leadership. It has no option except holding dialogue with Pakistan," he added.

To a query, he equated the situation in the IOK with that of a flame waiting to burst out into fire.

Fatemi further said under the Prime Minister's vision for peaceful neighbourhood, Pakistan had offered solid proposals to India to resolve all the issues, including the

core issue of Kashmir, but these moves were not reciprocated.

In the past, Pakistan had also offered three-pronged proposals under the Strategic Control Regime for peace and prosperity of the whole region, he added.

Fatemi said Indian leadership's attempts to colour Kashmiris' indigenous movement for self determination with terrorism was 'absurd'.

He regretted that India also did not respond to an offer by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for treatment facilities to Kashmiris who had been brutally injured by Indian forces in IOK, especially victims of pellet guns.

The atrocities against the Kashmiris were unacceptable, he said and called upon India to stop it forthwith.

Under the international laws and UN charter, he said, character of an occupied land like the IOK and Palestine could not be changed.

About admission of Indian leadership's role in break up of East Pakistan, Fatemi said that Pakistan had already taken the issue at the United Nations.

He reiterated that it was a blatant violation of international laws and the UN Charter.

To Indian Prime Minister Modi's statement over Balochistan, the Special Assistant rejected it downright by saying that none of the member countries in the UN had ever raised the issue.

Fatemi said India remained involved in terrorist activities in Balochistan and referred to recent arrest of its serving naval officer Kulbushan Yadav.

He assured that all the details about his involvement in terrorist activities would be shared with the world after conclusion of a thorough investigations.

The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was a project between two sovereign countries and the Chinese leadership had already rejected Indian concerns over the project, he replied to a question.

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