ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz has said that the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech has vindicated Pakistan’s stance that RAW is involved in terror-related activities in Balochistan.
“Prime Minister Modi’s reference to Balochistan, which is an integral part of Pakistan, only proves Pakistan’s contention that India through its main intelligence agency RAW, has been fomenting terrorism in Balochistan,” the advisor said in a statement said on Monday in response to Modi’s address on the occasion of Indian 70th Independence Day.
Earlier in the morning, Narendra Modi while addressing the nation from Ret Fort in New Delhi claimed that the Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir had thanked him a lot in past few days as Pakistan was allegedly depriving them of their basic rights.
The advisor said that Indian intelligence agency RAW’s involvement in Balochistan was also confirmed by the public confession of RAW’s active service Naval Officer Kulbhushan Yadav in March this year.
In reference to Modi’s statement that Pakistan continued to glorify terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, Sartaj Aziz said that the Indian prime minister was only trying to divert world attention from the grim tragedy that has been unfolding in the Indian Occupied Kashmir over the past five weeks.
“Thousands of unarmed youth are protesting every day for their right of self-determination. More than 70 innocent Kashmiris have been killed and more than 6000 injured. There is constant curfew and complete media blackout for the past 37 days. These events have nothing to do with terrorism,” Sartaj Aziz said.
Sartaj Aziz said that “It is an indigenous movement for self-determination, a right promised to the Kashmiris by the UN Security Council. At this time, the contrast between the Indian Occupied Kashmir and the Azad Jammu and Kashmir could not be starker.”
The advisor urged India to recognize that the core issue of Kashmir cannot be resolved by bullets.
“It requires a political solution, through serious negotiations between India and Pakistan,” he said.
