LAHORE: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi says India’s hegemonicpretensions present a clear danger to regional stability, and to Pakistan’ssecurity.
Addressing a ceremony in Islamabad on Thursday, he said India resorts towar-mongering and issues nuclear threats including for short term domesticelectoral gains.
The Minister said New Delhi refuses to bilaterally engage dialogue andrejects proposals aimed at risk reduction, confidence-building and nuclearand missile restraint.
Shah Mahmood Qureshi said Pakistan desires peace and strategic stability inorder to focus on its socio-economic development agenda.
He said our conduct continues to be defined by restraint andresponsibility, and the avoidance of an arms race. Pakistan, however,cannot remain oblivious to the evolving security dynamics in its immediateneighbourhood.
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The Minister said on August 5, India sought to further consolidate itsillegal and immoral occupation of Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir inviolation of numerous UNSC resolutions and international law.
He said the inhuman lockdown of eight million people continuing for over 70days is imposing unspeakable sufferings on the people of Indian occupiedJammu and Kashmir.
