ISLAMABAD – Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi says Prime Minister ImranKhan successfully internationalized the issue of Kashmir, which had beenlying dormant for five decades.
Talking to Radio Pakistan’s News and Current Affairs Channel, he said Indiahas been badly exposed viz-a-viz its human rights violations and atrocitiesin the Occupied Kashmir as the Indian media has started criticizing this aswell.
He said post prime minister’s speech, there have been 23 incidents, wherepeople defied the curfew and come out to protest. He said there werefireworks, the night Prime Minister Imran Khan addressed the UN GeneralAssembly. He said today in Manchester, a large number of Pakistani andBritish citizens are protesting the human rights violations and thelockdown in Occupied Kashmir.
To a question, Shah Mahmood Qureshi said the Pakistani team had excellentbilateral interactions with global leaders, think tanks, the media, civilsociety, and diaspora, where it put across the point of view of Kashmiris.He said Prime Minister Imran Khan had 70 interactions with world leadersduring his stay in New York.
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The Foreign Minister said he, too, had 50 interactions, taking the tally ofsuch communications to 120 in just six days. Shah Mahmood Qureshi said thatmany countries stood by Pakistan’s stance on the crisis in Kashmir and alsomentioned the illegal occupation of Jammu and Kashmir in their statementsfor which we are thankful to them.
He especially thanked Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, MalaysianPrime Minister Mahathir Mohammad, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Healso thanked UN Secretary General António Guterres, who acknowledgedsituation in Kashmir as an issue, which needs immediate attention.
