Reaction to Indian MEA Statement

In response to a question about the Indian MEA spokesperson’s comments, the spokesperson said we have taken a serious note of the remarks made by the spokesperson of the Indian MEA.

2. Pakistan firmly rejects the baseless allegations about “mainstreaming of terrorism”. Pakistan has been in the forefront of combating terrorism and is also its biggest victim. On the contrary, if any evidence of mainstreaming of terrorism in India was needed, one only had to look at the perpetrators of Samjohta Express terrorist attack and its masterminds.

3. Pakistan takes its obligations under the UN Security Council mandate very seriously, unlike India as manifested by its failure to implement the UN Security Council resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir.

4. We also reject the equally baseless allegations and efforts to malign Pakistan by implicating it in the recent attacks in Indian Occupied Kashmir. The recent verdict of court martial on fake encounter of 2010 exposes the hollowness of the Indian infiltration claims. The violence in IoK is the result of decades of repressive Indian policies and imposition of sham elections in IOK, an exercise in futility. India has to understand that the people of Jammu and Kashmir would accept nothing short of their right to self-determination, promised to them by the United Nations Security Council and accepted by India and the International community.

Islamabad
8 December 2014

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