Pakistan keeps cool in face of threats from India

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan kept its cool in the face of rage and frenzy from across the border with spokesman at the Foreign Office rejecting unfounded, baseless and uninvestigated accusations levelled against Pakistan after an armed attack on the Indian Army at the Uri checkpost.

Pakistan says that it has become a habit of India to point accusatory fingers towards Pakistan after every such incident, and added that Pakistan had nothing to gain from such incidents, which sees difficulties in the region after the continuing irresponsible Indian statements.

“First of all, Pakistan has nothing to gain from such incidents. Secondly, we must understand the backdrop and context of occurrence of such incidents. Look at the current situation in Indian Held Kashmir (IHK), where gross violation of human rights has been carried out by Indian occupation forces on innocent Kashmiris with impunity. This has attracted attention of the entire world community,” the spokesman responded to continued allegations from New Delhi that Pakistan had orchestrated the Uri attack.

“I am not sure if you are aware of dozens of  demonstrations, though peaceful, held in UK, across Europe, Canada and many other parts of the world by the civil society members, Kashmiri and Pakistani Diaspora and Member Parliaments, highlighting the grave human rights situation in IHK. The recent statements by UN secretary general, OIC secretary general, in particular, and UN Human Rights High Commissioner, condemning and expressing deep concern at the atrocities in Kashmir, are a testimony to this effect. India has been making desperate attempts to divert the world attention from the situation in IHK,” explained the spokesman.

He refused to be drawn into ‘the dramatics’ and ‘antics’, where unforgivable news coverage by Indian electronic media carried a statement where Hindu extremists offered head money of Rs10 million for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

Together with this, the Indian security forces continued to see shadows everywhere, where defence and police forces in Maharashtra went on high alert on Thursday after reports of sighting of suspicious men near a naval base in Uran, and suspicious activities in nearby Karanja.

Included are also threats that New Delhi has an option to close Indus water from flowing into Pakistan defying the treaty guaranteed by the World Bank.

Pakistan refuses to be sidetracked by these Indian antics when the Jammu and Kashmir High Court refused to ban the use of pellet guns in violent situations, and justified the use of “force” for crowd control.

The spokesman said that Pakistan was persistent while creating awareness with dossiers on different aspects of the Kashmir turmoil.

As the Kashmir courts continued deaths using pellet guns, Nawaz Sharif handed over a dossier detailing these atrocities to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

“The plight of Kashmiri people, who have lost over 100,000 precious lives in the course of their struggle to achieve the right of self-determination, is an open book for the world community to witness. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has expressed full support to the cause of Kashmir, and we are committed to highlight this issue at every regional and international forum and take up the issue of human rights violations and Indian occupation forces’ atrocities in IHK in every bilateral interaction,” said the spokesman.

In response to India’s open declaration that it is interfering inside Balochistan and agreeing to give Baloch militants Indian citizenship and whether dossier on this issue was getting any response, the spokesman said, “But dossier or no dossier, this is public information that India has repeatedly been caught in terror financing, and instigating subversive activities in Pakistan. A recent example is Indian intelligence agency Raw’s officer Kulbhushan Yadav’s public confession. It is only a matter of time when the evidence will be shared with the UN secretary general.”

Interestingly, the Indian media has gone an extra mile in its propaganda and lies when it twisted a statement of Nepal’s prime minister against Pakistan.

The Foreign Office took its time when on Thursday it clarified that according to Nepal’s Foreign Office, during an interview the Nepali premier talked about the matters relating to the cooperation in security issues between Nepal and India and effective implementation of the policy already derived.

“The interviewer unnecessarily drew the reference to alleged third country support to terror networks. What the prime minister said in reply was only meant to refer to the support of the government of Nepal in controlling Nepal-India cross-border criminal activities. He did not intend to acknowledge the involvement of any third country whatsoever. The government of Nepal dissociates itself from any wrong interpretation of the interview,” said the statement from Kathmandu.