Islamabad, June 23, 2023 (PPI-OT): Defence Minister, Khawaja Asif, has said India is perpetrating state terrorism in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The Defence Minister while speaking in the National Assembly, today, there is an undeclared curfew in IIOJK and the people there are living under restrictions of all sorts in blatant violation of human rights.
He took a strong exception to the mention of Pakistan in a joint statement issued after a meeting between the US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Khawaja Asif pointed out that it was Narendra Modi who oversaw the killings of thousands of Muslims and rape of Muslim women in Gujarat during his tenure as the Chief Minister and in recognition of those atrocities, the US, at that time, had imposed ban on issuing a visa to Modi. He said the Indian Prime Minister continues to target the minorities especially the Muslims.
Turning to the relations with the US, the Defence Minister said Pakistan today is paying a heavy price of serving as a frontline state in the two Afghan wars. He said the terrorism entered Pakistan because it acted as an ally of the US in the war on terrorism. He deplored that the sacrifices of Pakistan were not acknowledged.
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