ISLAMABAD: President Centre for Pakistan and Gulf Studies (CPGS) Senator Sehar Kamran has slammed the Indian prime ministers’ remarks on Baluchistan, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir during his Indian Independence Day speech.
The senator said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech was once again a direct assault on Pakistan’s internal matters and a new low in the series of open threats against Pakistan’s territorial integrity and sovereignty made by Indian officials and their prime minister since assuming office.
In a statement issued on Thursday, she said that Modi’s speech validates Pakistan’s age old claims and concerns of active Indian involvement inside Pakistani territory, especially Baluchistan.
She said the world needs to take note of the continuous breach of international law by its neighbouring state – as was brought to the limelight the arrest of the Indian naval officer on a spy mission in Baluchistan.
Kamran said the language used by Modi was hardly one befitting a country which claims to be qualified for a UNSC seat or the Nuclear Supplier Group membership.
She said the world has witnessed some of India’s worst human rights abuses over the past seven decades, not only in Kashmir but also against Naga movement, the Naxalite and the Maoist movement as well.
“It must be understood that the global discriminatory narrative or practice of belittling genuine and now proven concerns of Pakistan regarding its neighbour’s ill intentions will only lead to further regional instability and the disruption of global peace,” said the senator.
The international community must acknowledge the evidence of Indian involvement in Pakistan – fuelling the flames of instability – she added.