By Shakeel Ahmed
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Thursday said that India has been violating the international laws by targeting civilians along the Line of Control.
In a statement issued here on Thursday Shah Mehmood Qureshi said the visit of the foreign media representatives to the Line of Control yesterday was very important.
He said India always used double standards, but Pakistan took foreign media persons to the Line of Control to show them the reality.
He pointed out whether India will allow independent journalists to visit occupied Kashmir. He said India keeps movements of the UN observers limited so that they cannot see the facts on the Line of Control.
“The visit meant to show the truth to the world.”
Shah Mehmood Qureshi said President of the UN General Assembly will be visiting Pakistan. The minister said he will present before the UNGA President Pakistan’s stance and the entire situation.
Shah Mehmood said India’s relations with its neighbors, including China, Nepal and Bangladesh are getting tense day by day. He said India is deteriorating its ties with other regional countries because of its Hindutva ideology.
He said Iran has also dropped India from Chabahar project.
Moreover, The foreign minister also said that the president-elect of the United Nations General Assembly, Ambassador Volkan Bozkir, is due to visit Pakistan on Monday.
Qureshi said he would present to Bozkir Pakistan’s position on Indian occupied Kashmir, which he said was suffering the “worst human rights situation” in the world.
The foreign minister said that he would also inform Bozkir about the atrocities committed by the Indian Army in occupied Kashmir.
Qureshi termed the visit of foreign media journalists to the Line of Control (LoC) in Chirikot sector a day earlier “an important step” in this regard. The journalists, he said, were escorted by the military to the region to witness the plight of residents living along the frontier.
Qureshi said the journalists had been invited by Pakistan to “show them the double standards of India”.
“Will India follow suit and allow independent media to visit the occupied valley?” he questioned, adding that India was also “restricting movement of UN-deployed observers to hide the truth”.
According to the Foreign Office, India has committed 1,697 ceasefire violations this year to date, resulting in 14 deaths and serious injuries to 133 civilians.
