NEW YORK – After terming them ‘Butchers of Gujrat’, Indian EAM Jaishankargets big embarassment from Pakistani counterpart who refused and boycottedhis SAARC speech. Indian diplomat was left red faced in the event.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Thursday boycotted the speech ofhis Indian counterpart at the meeting of the South Asian Association forRegional Cooperation (SAARC) being held on the sidelines of the 74thsession of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
In a statement, Qureshi said he walked out from the ministerial conferenceof the SAARC – regional intergovernmental organisation and geopoliticalunion of states in South Asia – in protest against India’s scrapping ofspecial rights of Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) region and a consistentclampdown there.
“India has to ensure the fundamental human rights of Kashmiris”.
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There will be no talks until India lifts the curfew and stop human rightsviolations in occupied Kashmir,” Qureshi said.
