MUZAFFARABAD: Muslim Ummah has made huge investments in one billion peopleIndian market, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi makesrealistic analysis over Kashmir cause.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi painted a rather grim picture andsaid on Monday that no one was waiting at the United Nations SecurityCouncil (UNSC) to garland Pakistan and that the climate might not beconducive to resolution of the Kashmir issue.
Addressing a press conference along with Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK)President Sardar Masood Khan, he said many countries in the world hadeconomic interests in India.
“Though we happen to talk about the Ummah and Islam but the guardians ofUmmah have made investments and have interests in India which is a marketof one billion people,” he said without naming any state.
He said Kashmir issue had not popped up overnight but it had been there forthe past seven decades. “Did it begin on Aug 5 [when India scrapped specialstatus of Kashmir]; didn’t these [UN] resolutions exist earlier? Had therenot been the foreign office before? Had there not been the killing andincidents of molestation of women in held Kashmir over the past 30 years,”he posed many questions in a row.
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“Kashmir was on the back burner over the past 30 years. And there werereasons for it. For 30 years, this issue suffered due to the trade andaid,” he said, without elaborating his point.
The foreign minister maintained it was easy to provoke feelings and easierthan that was to hurl objections, but it was difficult to comprehend anissue and carry it forward.
