Striking a defiant note, Pakistan National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz on Sunday refused to accept the claim that his country has been brutally suppressing people in the Pakistan occupied Kashmir(PoK) even as videos accessed by CNN-IBN revealed a totally different picture. On the contrary he accused India of using 7 lakh soldiers to suppress Kashmiris.
In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN, Aziz said, "We haven’t kept thousand of troops to suppress our Kashmir, there is hardly any soldier who is suppressing our people. They are living freely and there is no such thing but India has to keep 70000 troops in Kashmir to subjugate the people who want the right of self determination."
"I haven't seen the video, but you wait for our video on this subject, because our video of human rights violation in occupied Kashmir is so sort of overwhelming. I have been watching Azad Kashmir, our side of Kashmir from so many years and I haven't seen any kind of protest which says that there is human right violation. The infrastructure is just not there in India, you don’t even allow foreign journalist to travel throughout Kashmir, human rights institutions are not allowed to come there, so there is no comparison. I think we are going to raise this very soon," he added.
Last week, CNN-IBN exposed the real face of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) where there are massive protests against the Pakistani government in several areas including Muzaffarabad, Gilgit and Kotli. CNN-IBN exposed how the Pakistani establishment was using brutal force to quell rebellion in the region, resorting to massive human rights violation even though Islamabad has never lost an opportunity to hit out at New Delhi over Kashmir and the alleged attempts to suppress the people living in the Valley.
Talking about the dialogue between India and Pakistan, Aziz said, "I don’t think that two PMs are expected to meet but we had proposed with our correspondence with India External Affairs Minister to have a meeting to discuss the time schedule and modalities of discussion and all the matters which are agreed in Ufa, but their (India) response was first NSA should meet and discuss terrorism related issue and if outcome is satisfactory than Indian External Affairs Minister could meet me. So naturally we cannot accept this condition and therefore the meeting never took place and this happened before, not there in New York, we were not expecting a meeting with MEA and PM."
"There were asking but we were saying that no since Ufa has 2 paragraphs one that both sides agreed to discuss all of pending issues, the second was three decision- NSA will meet, fisherman will be released, and tourism will be motivated, and LoC ceasefire will be restored. We said we should discuss the first paragraph which is road map and time schedule or modalities of other issue, but their condition was very strange that not only the NSA should meet first but they should produce the outcome that effects to India then we will talk between two MEA, obviously this was very strange. In New York every foreign minister meets every foreign minister. In this case Indian foreign minister said no, you meet on our terms before meeting somebody else then I will meet you if outcome is satisfactory. This kind of diplomacy I have never seen in my career," he said.
The Kashmir issue has been dictating Indo-Pakistan relations for decades. Recently, Islamabad derailed NSA-level talks by including Kashmiri separatists in the dialogue process as India protested their inclusion.
Pakistan has, however, maintained no peace process can be initiated without Kashmir on the talking table. As usual Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif even raised it at the United Nations.
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