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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asserted that Pakistan Occupied Kashmir(PoK) is ours as much as Jammu, Kashmir Valley and Ladakh.He asked the External Affairs Ministry to contact residents of PoK staying abroad and get information from them about the pathetic conditions in PoK and let the world know the fact.
Modi asserted that “There cannot be any compromise on national security, but we have to win the confidence of the people in Jammu and Kashmir,”
PM Modi blamed cross-border terrorism for the unrest in Kashmir and said Pakistan must also be exposed globally for atrocities in PoK and Balochistan.
He said the “foreign ministry should get in touch with expats from PoK living in various parts of the world, gather information from them on the pitiable condition in the region and let the global community know about it.”
Today’s meeting was called to find a political solution to the crisis in Kashmir, where over 50 people have been killed in clashes between protesters and security forces and more than 5000 injured since July 8 when violent protests erupted over the killing of HM supremo Millitant Burhan Vani.
The opposition said today that it backed the government in its attempt to restore peace in the Valley, but demanded that immediate confidence building measures be initiated like discontinuing the use of pellet guns to curb protests. In the recent protests at least 100 people have been blinded by pellets fired by security forces and many others are injured.
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke first for the Congress, saying the “Centre must show it is a caring government.”
The government has said it would consider all of the suggestions made by the opposition, including sending an all-party delegation to Kashmir after the situation on the ground improves.
“We will be satisfied only when the ground situation improves and the government takes steps,” said the Congress’s Ghulam Nabi Azad, who had criticised PM Modi for making his first comments on the Kashmir crisis at a rally in Madhya Pradesh and not in parliament.
