“Gross Interference:” India Slams Pakistan’s Remarks On Kashmir At Meeting

New Delhi:

India on Thursday hit out at Pakistan for elevating the Kashmir factor at a digital assembly of multilateral grouping CICA, and urged Islamabad to stop its “overt and covert” toughen to cross-border terrorism.

In a pointy response, the Ministry of Exterior Affairs mentioned Pakistan has misused some other discussion board by means of proceeding its “spurious narrative” about India.

Pakistan raised the Kashmir factor on the ministerial assembly of the Convention on Interplay and Self belief Construction Measures in Asia (CICA), an intergovernmental discussion board of 27 international locations.

Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar represented India on the assembly.

The MEA mentioned Pakistan has no locus standi to touch upon interior affairs of India, announcing that the Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh had been and can stay an integral a part of the rustic.

“Pakistan’s remarks nowadays represent gross interference in India’s interior affairs, sovereignty and territorial integrity which is inconsistent with the CICA Declaration at the Ideas Guiding Family members between the CICA Member States of September 1999,” the MEA mentioned, in keeping with remarks by means of Pakistan Overseas Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi.

It mentioned Pakistan is the “world epicentre” of terrorism and is still the supply of terrorist actions in India.

“We recommend Pakistan to stop its sponsorship and overt and covert toughen to terrorism towards India. This may increasingly allow the 2 international locations to have interaction and cope with problems bilaterally relatively than distract this necessary discussion board from its schedule,” the MEA mentioned.

In his cope with on the CICA assembly, S Jaishankar known as for higher collective efforts to counter terrorism and its sponsors.

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