ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has strongly rejected Indian complaint made toUnited States over Occupied Kashmir militancy.
Pakistan does not send militants to India or any other country, Pakistanhas told the US after India tried to gain Washington sympathies amidtension between the South Asian giants.
Pakistan and the US are in contact at the top level and Washington hadshared some ‘complaints’ by India that Pakistan was sending militants inKashmir and elsewhere, senior government officials told The Nation onSunday.
“Our position is very clear. We have never send fighters to India and wehave never done it (sent militants) to any country. The Kashmir freedomstruggle is indigenous which Pakistan supports diplomatically andpolitically,” one official said, citing regular talks with the UScounterparts.
Another official said US President Donald Trump was playing an active roleto defuse the Pak-India tension but India was defiant to play under its ownterms. “The only thing Pakistan wants is normalcy in Kashmir. We are readyfor talks anywhere, anytime,” he maintained.
Earlier, a US think-tank has warned that the spectre of nuclear war hauntstensions between Pakistan and India and the disputed territory of Kashmircould provide the spark that lights South Asia’s nuclear fuse.
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The report by Stratfor, a geopolitical intelligence platform based inAustin, Texas, also disputes the classification of Kashmir issue as India’sinternal affair or a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan.
The possibility of the conflict going nuclear has increased after IndianDefense Minister Rajnath Singh’s statement of abandoning India’s “no firstuse” doctrine, says the report. It said the people of Kashmir were promiseda plebiscite that never took place.
It pointed out that last February, Pakistan downed an Indian fighter jetbut returned its pilot. However, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi didnot acknowledge Islamabad’s conciliatory gesture nor his government hasbeen willing to discuss the Kashmir issue, whose people were promised aplebiscite on their future.
