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Pakistan has stressed the continued need for a plebiscite in Kashmir, while the Prime Minister’s Adviser on Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz, told the National Assembly that New Delhi had resisted US pressure to resume talks on Kashmir.
This situation continues against the backdrop of tension along the Line of Control, where multiple deaths occurred last year. While Pakistan has repeatedly held in the past that it sought improved ties with India, something it illustrated with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif attending the oath-taking ceremony of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in May 2014, New Delhi’s aggressive language has in many ways subverted these efforts — with quite deliberate intent. As a consequence, Pakistan has been forced to hit back in similar language. This obviously does not bring us any closer to solving either the Kashmir issue or other problems with India. It is vital these matters are ironed out, through talks, for the sake of the people of the region. New Delhi’s reluctance to move in this direction places us all in danger and in particular jeopardises the safety of the people of Kashmir, who remain deprived of the right to determine their own destiny, and as a result, stay at risk of rights abuses committed against them by the Indian state.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 7th, 2015.
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