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Pakistan wouldn’t restore ties with India until New Delhi reverses its decision on Kashmir: Imran Khan

July 1, 2021July 1, 2021 Editor

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said that “entire Pakistan stands by their Kashmiri brothers and sisters” Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Wednesday that Pakistan would not restore diplomatic ties with India until New Delhi revokes its decision of scrapping the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. India abrogated the special status of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 on August 5, 2019 and bifurcated it into two Union territories. “I want to make it clear that diplomatic relations will not be restored with India until it rescinds the illegal…

Imran Khan again seeks US intervention on Kashmir Issue

June 22, 2021June 22, 2021 Editor

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has again sought the intervention of the US to settle the Kashmir issue with India, a move that is unlikely to go down well with New Delhi, which has consistently spurned mediation by any third party. Khan made the call for the US administration to help resolve the dragging Kashmir issue during an interview with the news programme Axios on HBO. In the past, Khan found a ready taker for his calls for US intervention on Kashmir in former president Donald Trump, but such efforts…

Pakistan will oppose any move by India to ‘Divide Kashmir’ and change its demography: Shah Mahmood Qureshi

June 21, 2021June 21, 2021 Editor

Pakistan said on Saturday that it would oppose any move by India to divide Kashmir and change its demography. Pakistan’s Foreign Office said in a statement that Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has stated that India must refrain from taking any further illegal steps in Kashmir after its actions of 5 August, 2019. The Pakistani statement came on a day when the Centre invited 14 political leaders from Jammu and Kashmir to participate in a high-level meeting to be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on June…

Ready to restart talks with India if given Kashmir roadmap: Imran Khan

June 15, 2021June 15, 2021 Editor

The two nuclear-armed neighbors both control parts of Kashmir but claim it in full Previously, Khan and his government have held that India would have to first reverse its 2019 steps for any normalization process to begin Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Friday that Pakistan is ready to restart talks with arch-rival India if Delhi provides a roadmap toward restoring the previous status of the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.The two nuclear-armed neighbors both control parts of Kashmir but claim it in full. In 2019, India withdrew India-ruled Kashmir’s…

Pakistan to convene a meeting of FM’s of Muslim Nations on Kashmir Issue

June 6, 2021June 6, 2021 Editor

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday announced to convene a meeting of the foreign ministers of Muslim nations in Islamabad next year to highlight the issue of Kashmir and get their support. He was addressing a gathering of political workers of his Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf party in his home town of Multan. ‘If God grants me time, then in March 2022 I will invite the foreign ministers of the Islamic world to Islamabad and try to rally them on the Kashmir issue,” he said. India has repeatedly said Jammu and…

Rollback 2019 decision on Kashmir for better Pakistan-India ties: Imran Khan

June 3, 2021June 3, 2021 Editor

Relations between Pakistan and India cannot be normalised till New Delhi rolls back its decision of August 2019 to scrap the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Wednesday. Addressing a joint press interaction with Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon in Islamabad, Khan said the full potential of the region can be achieved only if the situation in Afghanistan stabilises and there are better ties between Pakistan and India. Following back-channel contacts facilitated by countries such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia, the…

UNGA Chief Volkan Bozkir ‘Saddened’ by India’s reactions to his Kashmir Statements

June 2, 2021June 2, 2021 Editor

General Assembly President Volkan Bozkir is ‘saddened by India’s reaction to his statements on Kashmir, according to his Deputy Spokesperson Amy Quantrill, who has asserted that they were taken out of context. She said at a news briefing on Tuesday, “The President was saddened to see a press statement from the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, which portrays his remarks on Jammu and Kashmir from a selective perspective, while they are consistent with the longstanding UN position regarding this issue.” She added, “It is regrettable that the President’s remarks were…

Chinese FM Lijian Zhao blames Britain and its ‘Bloody Colonial Past’ for the Kashmir Crisis

June 1, 2021June 1, 2021 Editor

Chinese FM blames Britain and its ‘Bloody Colonial Past’ for the Kashmir Crisis

In strong tweets quoting a Chinese media report, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Lijian Zhao blamed Britain for the “bloodshed” that continues in Kashmir. “If British India was the jewel in the crown of the British Empire, then Kashmir has been the biggest crack in it when the crown finally fell over on that land,” he posted Friday.The spokesperson was quoting from a report, titled ‘Kashmir: A Crack in the Jewel in the Crown of the British Empire’, which was published by state-run Xinhua News Agency on 18 May. “As long…

India, Pakistan should not change Kashmir status: Volkan Bozkir

May 30, 2021May 30, 2021 Editor

India and Pakistan should “refrain” from taking steps that would alter the status of the disputed territory of Kashmir, the president of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has said, as the two countries once again traded accusations over the Himalayan region this week. UNGA president Volkan Bozkir was speaking at a joint news conference with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Thursday, as he completed a three-day visit to the Muslim-majority nation. “Both parties, all parties, must refrain from taking steps that could…

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will not affect China’s stand on Kashmir Issue: Zhao Lijian

May 25, 2021May 25, 2021 Editor

China on Monday again defended its controversial USD 60 billion CPEC project with Pakistan, disregarding India’s protests as it is being laid through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, saying it is an economic initiative and has not affected its principled stand on the Kashmir issue. Leaders of China and Pakistan have praised the progress of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in recent days as the two close allies celebrated the establishment of 70 years of their diplomatic relations. India has protested to China over the CPEC, the flagship project of China’s Belt and…