Pakistan

Islamabad, Aug 29 (PTI) Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that no decision has been taken yet to close the airspace to India, underlining that any such step would be taken after looking into each and every aspect of the move through consultation.

Qureshi dismissed as speculative reports suggesting that the airspace was being shut for India, the Dawn reported.

ISLAMABAD, Aug 28 (APP): Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Youth Affairs Usman Dar on Wednesday while strongly condemning the India’ s atrocities in Indian Occupied0 Kashmir(IOK), said Pakistan will go to its last limit for resolving the decade-old dispute.

Talking to a private news channel he said Pakistan is determined to expose Indian policies over Kashmir on international fora. India has turned the Kashmir valley into a military garrison and even Indian politicians are not allowed to visit the valley.

ISLAMABAD, Aug 27 (APP): The US-based news agency, the Associated Press, citing officers of Kashmir police has said that at least three incidents of fights between personnel of Kashmir police and Indian soldiers have taken place since India revoked Kashmir’s special status, leading to injuries on both sides, in Indian occupied Kashmir.

ISLAMABAD, Aug 26 (APP): Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday, reiterating Pakistan’s complete support to eight million Kashmiris in the Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ&K) for their indigenous struggle for their fundamental rights and self-determination, observed that Modi had committed a huge and historical blunder, providing a historic opportunity for Kashmiris to get freedom from the illegal Indian occupation.

LAHORE, Aug 25 (APP): Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry on Sunday said that war was never an option, but Pakistan was ready to retaliate in a befitting manner if India would go for any misadventure or impose a war on the country.

Addressing a press conference after his visit to Child Protection and Welfare Bureau (CP&WB) here, he said Pakistan had made all-out efforts to normalise relations with India, but it had not been reciprocated.

MIRPUR (AJK): Aug 25 (APP): Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmad said that Pakistan will fight the case of the people of Jammu and Kashmir on all forums the world. “The entire world has moved to raise voice against the Indian atrocities in the disputed Indian Occupied State”, he said during a meeting with Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan in AJK’s metropolis on Sunday.

ISLAMABAD, Aug 25 (APP): Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan Sunday expressed that Kartarpur corridor was a perfect example of inter-faith harmony as its completion would further promote peaceful co-existence of people from various beliefs and civilizations.   
 
Dr Firdous, in a tweet, said the devotees belonging to Sikh community from India and other parts of the world could perform their religious rituals freely in Pakistan after completion of this project.

RAWALPINDI, Aug 24 (APP): Minister for Aviation, Ghulam Sarwar Khan Saturday said Prime Minister Imran Khan would effectively highlight prevailing situation in Kashmir at United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to grab attention of the international community to pressurize India stop its genocide in the Held Kashmir.

ISLAMABAD, Aug 24 (APP): President Dr Arif Alvi Saturday said that no amount of oppression and brutality could suppress the resentment of Kashmiri people against India who wanted freedom at all costs.

“This is Srinagar yesterday despite curfews, bans, blackouts, teargas & firing,” the president said on twitter in his comments on a video showing thousands of Kashmir people including men, women and children taken to streets on Friday against the Indian oppression.

ISLAMABAD, Aug 24 (APP): Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi Saturday urged UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to immediately intervene, and play his role for safety and security of the people of in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IoJ&K), who had been bracing relentless siege of the Indian occupation forces for the last 20 days.