ISLAMABAD:Foreign Office (FO) Spokesman NafeesZakaria said on Thursday that India has been involved in financing terrorism that targetsthe China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project.
Zakaria said that India’s unprovoked firing and shelling on the Line of Control (LoC) and the Working Boundary to divert attention from the human rights violations in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK).
Not only that, he further said, New Delhi has been busy after the extra-judicial killing of a young Kashmiri leader, BurhanMuzaffarWani, on July 8 with the subsequent blatant human rights violations – in which at least 150 people have been killed, thousands visually impaired, over 16,000 wounded and at least 7,000 arrested.
The spokesperson maintained that the Indian forces had violated the LoC and working boundary at least 300 times – in 2016only.
“India breached the ceasefire agreement of 2003 and has targetedthe local population – which killed at least 44 civilians and injured over 135 along the LoC –but Pakistan, on the contrary, resorted to no such thing,” Zakaria said.
Pakistan’s director general of military operations (DGMO) had contacted his Indian counterpart over on Wednesday and protested over the targeting of civilian population along the LoCby saying that ‘it was not acceptable and deplorable’before demandinga stop to it.
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