ISLAMABAD – Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that theinternational community must take immediate steps to save human lives inOccupied Jammu and Kashmir as the Genocide Watch has also issued a detailedalert in this regard.
Addressing the Diplomatic Corps at Foreign Office, the foreign ministersaid that Indian illegal and unilateral actions to change the demography ofOccupied Kashmir are clear violations of the Geneva Convention.
The minister said that tensions between Pakistan and India over Kashmirissue are a threat to regional peace, adding that war between the twoatomic powers is equivalent to mutual suicide.
Shah Mahmood Qureshi said he has talked to his counterparts of manycountries and all have stressed the need to address the issue peacefully.
He said the recent session of the Security Council is the acknowledgementof the severity of the issue, the Radio Pakistan reported.
The foreign minister said that Indian media is propagating the false newsof an alleged terrorist attack from Pakistan to divert the attention of theworld community from the core issue of Kashmir.
He said we had already conveyed the danger of this propaganda in our letterwritten to the President of the Security Council.