ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office on Thursday said that it is not possible to engage bilaterally with India on Kashmir dispute following Narendra Modi government’s August 5 illegal steps and emphasised that solution of Kashmir dispute lies only in United Nations Security Council.
Speaking at his weekly media briefing, Foreign Office spokesperson Dr Mohammad Faisal rejected the Indian government claims that Kashmir is its internal matter, saying recent session of UN Security Council was a huge success of the Pakistan’s foreign policy and a manifestation of the fact that not India’s internal matter.
“The entire world is now well aware of the India’s hypocrisy. They [Indian] call Kashmir issue as its internal matter within India and to the rest of the world they say it is a bilateral matter”, he said while commenting on Indian Prime Minister Modi’s remarks after his recent meeting with US President Donald Trump.
To a question, he said that Pakistan has always tried to engage with the India to resolve the issue, but it is now not possible to engage bilaterally with India on Kashmir issue following the August 4 illegal actions.
Faisal said that Kashmir dispute is not a closed one and it is quite on the agenda of the UN Security Council, adding that further developments are expected on it. He asked India to stop misleading the international community and accept the ground realities by resolving the issue as per the aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
To a question about the airspace closure with India, he said that the matter was discussed at the highest level and no decision has been taken so far. However, we can exercise this option at the time of our choosing, he added.
About the grave situation in the Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir, he said Indian occupation forces have converted the occupied Kashmir especially Srinagar into a military garrison by deploying Indian troops in every nook and corner to prevent people from staging demonstrations against the illegal actions.
He said that the IoK is under siege and cut off from the rest of the world, adding that Indian forces continue to impose an unprecedented military lockdown and total clampdown in the occupied valley.
He said people have repeatedly attempted to break the curfew and other restrictions, adding that Kashmiri people are staging protests to show their resentment against the Indian occupation and its nefarious designs.
The spokesperson called upon the international community to take cognizance of blatant human rights violations in occupied valley.
He further said that Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi will be visiting Geneva to attend the meeting of UN Human Rights council next month to raise the human rights abuses being committed by the Indian forces. He said that special envoy Tehmina Janjua is already in Geneva for an extensive outreach with OIC and other countries.
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