Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) lambasting the government over poor internal and external policies said on Friday that Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi should have been in New York for lobbying the Security Council permanent members before the session.
Addressing a press conference here, Secretary General PML-N Ahsan Iqbal along with senior party leader Dr Musadiq Malik Iqbal also condemned Indian firing along the Line of Control (LoC) and bomb blast in Kuchlak town situated near provincial capital of Balochistan, Quetta.
The PML-N leaders said the Pakistan Army is capable of defeating the enemy. He said India had been dreaming about changing the status of Kashmir, which it could not do during the previous tenure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He criticised the foreign minister's statement that the world has huge economic interest with India and displayed his haplessness. In this situation Pakistan approached only one country whereas the most of the world is considering India's action in Kashmir as its internal matter. "Why did Pakistan not approach other countries?" he asked and termed it a failure of the PTI government.
Iqbal said India's minister for home affairs clearly stated before elections that status of Kashmir would be changed. Pakistan should have been prepared for the change in status of Indian-held Kashmir after the success of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in elections, he added. He said when India was directing tourists in Indian-held Kashmir and Hindu pilgrims to leave the region, the government of Pakistan should have taken immediate steps to counter Modi's move. He added that instead of countering India, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led federal government was busy celebrating US President Donald Trump's statement on Kashmir and politically victimising the opposition leaders.
He said that either Prime Minister Imran Khan was totally unaware of the situation or during the US visit he has given certain understandings to the US government over the Kashmir issue. He said that the government should have created national consensus on the issue but PM Imran Khan preferred to send the opposition leaders in jail. Imran Khan and his government should have consulted all the members of the Organization of Islamic Counties (OIC) and an emergency meeting of the forum should have been called in Islamabad to condemn Indian state-terrorism in the held valley.
He further asked the government to consult all the member countries of OIC to convene an emergency meeting of the forum to discuss and devise future plan for the people of the Indian-held Kashmir. If OIC isn't listening to Pakistan on the issue of Kashmir, the government must leave the forum, saying if OIC can't raise voice for the oppressed Muslims, it is of no use.
Ahsan said after winning the election on May 23, the Modi government made preparations and changed the status of Kashmir and removed article 35A from its constitution on August 5.
India's national security advisor undertook a visit to Kashmir in late July and then India deployed additional troops and sent tourists away from Kashmir before changing the status, he added.
Ahsan said the United Nations Security Council would meet to review the situation in Kashmir and discuss the tension between Pakistan and India. The remark of the United States President Trump about mediation on Kashmir was just an illusion, he added.
The PML-N leaders said that due to the incapable government, terrorism is once again raising its head in Pakistan and condemned the attack in Quetta in a mosque reportedly killing and injuring several worshippers.
He said that Kashmir is burning and people are forced to stay indoors due to the tyranny of Indian forces. Only a tweet is not at all enough in support of Kashmiri cause and Kashmiri people.
He said India was unable to take such a step in held Kashmir in 72 years but within one year of formation of Imran Khan-led PTI government, India abrogated Articles 370 and 35-A and divided the Kashmir. He said India's act of changing the status of Kashmir was an unprecedented move in 72 years.
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