INP
\nNEW YORK
\nForeign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Friday said that the Indian government was gaslighting the international community into normalizing the de facto annexation of Indian-occupied Kashmir.
\nIn an opinion piece for American news outlet CNN, the foreign minister warned that New Delhi was putting major US interests at stake with ethno-nationalist saber-rattling in the South Asian region.
\n\u201cIndia\u2019s government wants to gaslight the international community into normalizing India\u2019s de facto annexation of the Muslim-majority state,\u201d Qureshi wrote in the opinion piece. \u201cIndia is ethno-nationalist saber-rattling in a region with major US interests and international stability at stake,\u201d the minister warned, possibly alluding to the precarious security situation in Afghanistan.
\nQureshi further said that the draconian measures of the Indian government in occupied Kashmir were moving the security situation in the region towards the unthinkable. Shah Mahmood Qureshi wrote that the unilateral move of India on August 5 abrogated the special autonomous status granted to Jammu and Kashmir within its constitution.
\n\u201cWhat has followed has reminded the world of the extremism and xenophobia that still plagues it and has forced everyone to call the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party-led Indian government out on its actions.\u201d Qureshi added that the people of Kashmir had been under total lockdown and had continued to see shortages of food and medicine, while thousands had been detained through mass arrests.
\n\u201cUsing the familiar tactics of night raids, alleged torture, a media blackout and the suppression of protests, the Indian government has been trying desperately to conceal occupied Kashmir situation,\u201d he said.
\nFM Qureshi demanded the international community expose the reality that the BJP government was enacting through a nefarious political agenda being pursued in India.
\n\u201cIn its plans to allow Indians to buy land in Kashmir, India\u2019s government is putting Kashmir\u2019s Muslim majority at risk-a policy that could change Kashmir\u2019s identity,\u201d Qureshi warned.
\nIn Pakistan\u2019s opinion, he added, this violated the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibited a country from transporting its own people into occupied territory.
\nThe foreign minister further maintained that as the country that had always committed itself to speaking up for the people of Kashmir, Pakistan could not be silent on the unfolding catastrophe in Kashmir.
\n\u201cWe must not be na\u00efve about what is happening in Kashmir, and India must be stopped before this goes any further,\u201d Qureshi wrote in his opinion piece. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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