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SRINAGAR
Pakistan is fully “capable of meeting any internal or external security threat” with the complete resolve of its people and “valiant armed forces”, said Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday.
Sharif was addressing a high-level meeting in Islamabad today, Radio Pakistan reported.
“The meeting expressed deep concern on the increase in systematic human rights violations in Occupied Kashmir and strongly condemned brutal use of force by Indian security forces,” the news report said.
Addressing the meeting, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said that the world is a witness that Pakistan has given tremendous sacrifices for global peace. “Pakistan has shown unequalled and unprecedented restraint despite great provocation.”
“Pakistan will continue to struggle for a peaceful South Asia with a view to enable its people to achieve progress and prosperity of the 21st century,” Sharif said.
Prime Minister reiterated that “violence on Kashmiris” for their right to self-determination, promised by United Nations Security Council resolutions, “will never be tolerated and the oppressed Kashmiris deserve not only Pakistan’s support but also the support of the entire world”.
“Pakistan will continue to extend its moral and diplomatic support to Kashmiris until the issue of Kashmir is resolved as per aspirations of Kashmiri people,” he reaffirmed.
The Prime Minister said that the Indus Water Treaty was mutually agreed arrangement between India and Pakistan brokered by the World Bank in 1960 and no one country can unilaterally separate itself from the treaty.
The meeting was held on a day when Saarc summit which was scheduled to be held in Islamabad this November was cancelled after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that he won’t attend it.
It is in the constitution of Saarc, formed in 1985 after initiated by Bangladesh, that any such summit is cancelled when any single member decides to stay away. The South Asian regional group consists of eight member nations.
