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Pakistan is all set to carry a set of dossiers to United Nations general Assembly Meeting (UNGA), detailing concrete evidence of Indian state actors' involvement in stoking and supporting militancy in the country's troubled regions. Speaking in Senate about the upcoming visit of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's to New York, where he will address the annual UNGA session on September 30, the adviser to prime minister on foreign affairs and national security Sartaj Aziz said that Pakistan will take along all the dossiers prepared against India for its involvement in terror activities inside Pakistan.
He said that India accuses non-state actors of Pakistan but here it is an issue of state actors interfering in internal matters of Pakistan. "Yes, we are going to take all the dossiers along with us during the prime minister's address to the UNGA, and it is yet to be decided how we'll presents them, as it details the Indian state actors involvement in terror activities inside Pakistan," he declared.
About the meeting between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart Naredra Modi on the sidelines of the UNGA, he said that Pakistan would not request for any meeting with Indian prime minister, adding this time it will be the India which will request for a meeting between the two leaders. "India only wants to talk terror and we want a discussion on all outstanding disputes between the two countries including Kashmir. Our position is very clear. India called off the NSA-level dialogue last month and the request for any meeting must come from Indian side. India has to take the initiative or else we re not going to request for any meeting," he maintained.
Aziz said that Indian set precondition during the recently cancelled meeting between the national security advisers of the two countries, adding they wanted to hold talks only on terrorism, which Pakistan rejected as it wanted talks on all outstanding issues including the core issue of Jammu and Kashmir.
The adviser said that the cross-border firing by Indian troops two days after the meeting between the directors general Pakistan Rangers and Indian Border Security Force on September 09 to 12, the adviser said that the meeting between the two top officials was on the tense situation at Working Boundary.
The cross border firing took place at the Line of Control (LoC) and the Working Boundary, he said, adding Pakistan made a strong protest with Indian deputy high commissioner to Pakistan by summoning him to Foreign Office. He said that Pakistan also called for a joint-investigation over cross border firing which the India did not accept, saying both the sides would conduct their own inquiry. He said that Pakistan's permanent representative to the UN has also written a letter to the UN Security Council to take notice of Indian aggression.
During his address to the annual session of UNGA on September 30, the adviser said that the prime minister will highlight issues of Kashmir, Indian interference and threat to strategic balance in South Asia. The advisor said that Pakistan would highlight the Kashmir issue at the United Nations and other forums as bilateralism envisaged in Shimla Agreement some fifty-year back failed to achieve any progress on the dispute.
Responding to a question raised by the lawmakers over Kashmir not having been specifically mentioned in a joint statement issued after a meeting between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on July 10 on the sidelines of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation Summit in the Russian city of Ufa, he said: "We had agreed to discuss all outstanding issues which means Kashmir is part of it".
However, to a question raised by former president General Pervez Musharraf (Retd), who had said, in a declaration signed by former Indian Prime Minister Vajpayee and Nawaz Sharif in February 1999, Nawaz Sharif removed it from the final declaration, the adviser had nothing to say except saying he had mentioned in his book what Musharraf did with Kahsmir issue.
This angered the opposition lawmakers and they staged a walkout from the house, declaring the briefing by the national security adviser as a mere handout by the Foreign Office baboos, which he just read out fluently. The leader of opposition in Senate Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan, who led the protesting MPs said that the adviser had nothing to say about the serious allegations levelled by Pervez Musharraf, who claimed that Nawaz Sharif, the then prime minister, wilfully removed the word Kashmir from Lahore Declaration in his absence as he was chief of army staff then.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2015

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