NA flays India's baseless allegations

21 Feb, 2019

The National Assembly on Wednesday passed a unanimous resolution to reject baseless Indian allegations seeking to link suicide attack on Indian paramilitary troops in Pulwama last week to Pakistan "without investigation and any shared of evidence." Shortly after the session began with a two-and-a-half-hour delay, Speaker Asad Qaisar read out the resolution to the members and then it was approved unanimously.
The House condemned the knee-jerk reaction where instead of introspection on its repressive policies against the people of Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir denying their right to self-determination, "India has again sought to shift the blame to Pakistan through baseless polemic and provocative rhetoric."
Through the resolution, the House also recalled the statements by heads of all political parties and the Prime Minister's statement of February 19, offering Pakistan's assistance to India in investigations of this attack and to take action on actionable intelligence or evidence.
The House also strongly denounced the continuing reprisal attacks on Kashmiris in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir and targeting of Kashmiri students in India after the Pulwama attack.
The National Assembly stressed that India's smear campaign should not delude and obscure the real issues of human rights nightmare and humanitarian emergency prevalent in Indian-occupied Kashmir due to Indian atrocities.
The House also emphasised that "no one should underestimate Pakistan's resolve to defend itself against any act of aggression."
Proceedings of the National Assembly were adjourned till Thursday morning without taking up the routine agenda of the day.

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