After Hizbul Mujahideen Syed Salahuddin today threatened a nuclear attack on India over the Kashmir issue, Union Minister Venkiah Naidu slammed the terrorist and asked who gave him the right to speak about Kashmir, ANI reported.
“Who is he and who has given him the right to speak about Kashmir? Dhamki se kuch nahin hoga (His threats won’t work on us),” said Venkaiah Naidu, parliamentary affairs minister told ANI today.
The minister also chastised Pakistan for allowing the likes of Salahuddin and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed operate freely on its soil.
“They keep talking bad (like this) just for publicity. Pakistan must seriously think if encouraging such people is right,” Naidu said.
“Pakistan is duty bound, morally bound, politically bound and constitutionally bound to provide concrete, substantial support to the ongoing freedom struggle on the territory of Kashmir. And, if Pakistan provides this support, there is a great chance of a nuclear war between the two powers,” Salahuddin told reporters in Karachi earlier on Monday, according to ANI.
This is the umpteenth time that a Pakistani terrorist or politician has commented on India’s domestic situation, specifically about Kashmir.
After security services on July 8 gunned down 22-year-old Burhan Muzaffar Wani of the Hizbul Mujahideen, there have been continual clashes between security forces and those protesting Wani’s killing. As many as 60 people have so far been killed in the violence.
Sharif said Kashmir ‘main pillar’ of Pak foreign policy
A mere two days after Wani was killed, Pakistan began its sabre rattling. Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif expressed “deep shock” over the killing of Burhan Wani, and criticized the use of “excessive” force against civilians in the valley.Terrorist Hafiz Saeed went so far as to call the slain militant Wani a “martyr”, and also held a prayer meeting for him. And Pakistan on July 20 observed a ‘black day’ to ‘condemn’ the violence in Kashmir.
Salahuddin said today that if the international community did not pay heed to the ongoing violence in Kashmir, Kashmiris from both sides of the divided Valley would be forced to take things into their own hands, ANI reported.
“If God forbid, the international community continues to cold shoulder and ignore this issue and Pakistan’s efforts are not fruitful, and India does not stop its atrocities, a big incident can occur. Our base camp in liberated Azad Kashmir and the Kashmiris from this side will announce the trampling of the bloody Line (of Control),” he said.
Last week, Sharif described the Kashmir issue as the main pillar of Islamabad’s foreign policy and looked the other way when the supporters of terrorists Saeed and Salahuddin held protests against Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s visit to Islamabad.
Syed Salahuddin threatens Nuclear War; ‘Who gave Salahuddin right to speak about Kashmir?’: Venkaiah Naidu
