UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for the resolution of Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan through talks when Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif met him on Wednesday, according to a UN statement.
“The Secretary-General stressed the need for Pakistan and India to address their outstanding issues, including Kashmir, through dialogue in the interest of both countries and the region as a whole,” the statement said after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s meeting with the UN chief on the margins of the 71st session of the General Assembly.
“The Secretary-General expressed appreciation to Pakistan for its hosting of one of the largest groups of refugees for decades,” the statement said, referring to the millions of Afghan refugees in the country.
Meanwhile, a press release issued by the Pakistan mission to the UN said that during the meeting Nawaz Sharif handed over a dossier of the Indian state atrocities on the innocent Kashmiris to the UN secretary-general.
Modi’s vow to avenge Uri won’t remain just words: Manohar
NEW DELHI :Indicating a hardening of resolve within the government, Indian defence minister Manohar Parrikar has said that PM Narendra Modi’s promise to punish those behind the Uri terror attack would not remain words. “Sometimes I can have a knee jerk reaction too. But we are a responsible nation,” he said.
India would not be deterred by Pakistan brandishing nuclear weapons, he added.
Parrikar’s remarks came after a meeting of the cabinet committee on security, which was chaired by Modi and held after a slew of military assessments of options amid a strong demand in the BJP leadership that the Uri outrage must not go unpunished.
“…I don’t think the PM’s initial words that `those responsible will be punished’ will go as a mere statement. How to punish, that is for us to work out,” Parrikar said at an event here.
The defence minister admitted there were lapses at the Army camp at Uri. “Obviously, something must have been wrong. I believe in zero-error,” he said, adding that the government would find out what went wrong in the camp’s security that led to the death of 18 soldiers, many in the blaze that consumed the tents they were sleeping in.
