ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office is awaiting details about the summoning of Pakistani High Commissioner for the second time on Tuesday in past one week in connection with the ramped up tensions over attack on Brigade Headquarters in Uri this month.
In a statement, Spokesperson for the department, Nafees Zakaria has said that condemning violence at hands of Indian machinery on Kashmiris did not register as interference in country’s internal affairs.
Foreign Office cleared its stance within an hour of Basit’s visit to the Ministry of External Affairs.
Zakaria equivocally denied accepting Kashmir as an integral part of India as claimed by minister Sushma Swaraj in her United Nations General Assembly address.
Why Kashmir dispute was was there on the agenda of Security Council and there were resolutions of the United Nations regarding the occupied valley if it was India’s internal issue, the spokesperson raised question in response to Indian propaganda against Pakistan that has been sped up after attack in Baramulla District on September 11.
Zakaria cleared that Pakistan considered silence on brutality in Kashmir a crime.
He reiterated that Kashmiris could always draw political, diplomatic and ethical support from Pakistan.
The development has come in after Abdul Basit was summoned to the ministry today in what appeared to be an intrusive diplomatic move, considering it was the second time in a week.
India has apparently considered war with Pakistan an option after Uri attack as it shifted artillery to front trenches along the Line of Control a week ago.
India has been occupying Kashmir valley for over seven decades, refusing to act upon resolutions of the United Nations Organisation which on various occasions in the past has had called for the resolution of the dispute between the two sides.
Pakistan has strongly condemned continued illegal detention of Kashmiri human rights activist Khurram Parvez and urged India to release him immediately.
In a statement Foreign Office said that he has been slapped with draconian law 'Public Safety Act' and arrested on flimsy grounds.
The FO said that Human rights organizations including Amnesty International have urged India for his immediate and unconditional release.
The statement said that Pakistan further demand India to desist from stifling the voices of human rights defenders and media personnel in held Jammu & Kashmir.
Earlier, India did not allow him to travel to Geneva to participate in the ongoing session of UN Human Rights Council.
It said that Pakistan note with deep concern that India continues to engage in committing worst form of state terrorism in Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir.