ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office Spokesperson Nafees Zakaria said that Pakistan is considering the Indian request fo
r the grant of visa to the mother of Kulbushan Jadhav on Thursday.
Addressing his weekly news briefing in Islamabad, the spokesperson, however, regretted that India has imposed strict restrictions on the grant of visa to Pakistani patients.
He said tha
t “India’s belligerence poses threat to regional peace and security.” He expressed serious concerns over frequent ceasefire violations by Indian forces on the Line of Control (LoC) and the working boundary.
He said tha
t “The Indian side is deliberately heightening tension in order to divert world attention from its atrocities in occupied Kashmir. Indian forces committed 542 ceasefire violations in
the current year in
which 18 civilians embraced martyrdom.”
He said tha
t “Pakistani forces give befitting response to the Indian aggression but they are demonstrating utmost restraint as Pakistan has no desire to escalate the tension. The world community and the United Nations have also expressed concerns ove
r the LoC situation.”
He said tha
t “The 44th session of the Organisa
tion of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM)
which held in Abidjan, Republic of Cote d’Ivoire, on July 10-11, 2017, condemned the state terrorism in the Indian Occupied Kashmir(IOK) and called upon India to implement the United Nations (UN) Security Council resolutions on IOK.”
He said tha
t “The resolution
which was unanimously adopted by the 56 member Council, noted that Jammu Kashmir remains
the core dispute between India and Pakistan, and its early resolution is imperative for bringing peace to South Asia.”
He said tha
t “The Council expressed its support to the widespread indigenous movement of the people of Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir for their promised right to self-determination and observed that the just struggle of Kashmiris cannot be equated with terrorism.”
The spokesperson said tha
t “The Council also called upon the United Nations and the International Community to play their due role in stopping
the continuing bloodshed in IOK and fo
r the implementa
tion of the UN Security Council’s Resolutions on Jammu Kashmir,
which guarantee Kashmiri’s right to self-determination through a UN supervised plebiscite.”
He said tha
t “Pakistan believes in resolu
tion of all issues through dialogue. It is time that the international community takes concrete measures to stop the bloodshed in the valley.
He said tha
t “Kashmir dispute’s reflection in the UK’s Labour Party’s election manifesto, and in the January 19 debate in the House of Commons of the UK, represent increasing concern over
the current unacceptable human rights situation in IOK.”
Zakaria said tha
t “The Kashmiris observed ‘Youm-e-Shuhdah’ to commemorate the unprecedented sacrifices rendered by Kashmiris in 1931. We pay tribute to Shuhdah and express solidarity with Kashmiris in their struggle against Indian unlawful occupa
tion of their territory.”
Replying to a question regarding the missing Pakistani diplomatic staff and another two Pakistani citizens in Afghanistan, the spokesperson said that Pakistan is constantly in touch with Afghan authorities for their early recovery.
He said tha
t “Pakistan believes that there is no military solution to Afghan issue. Focus should be on politically negotiated settlement
which is Afghan led and Afghan owned.”