India ‘escalating tension on border’ to divert attention from Kashmir: Pak

ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office spokesperson of Pakistan, Nafees Zakaria during the weekly press briefing here on Thursday said that ‘India is deliberately escalating tension on the LoC’.
According to pakistani media reports, he said, only in 2017, India has made ‘542 times ceasefire violations in which 18 innocent civilians were killed’. The Indian atrocities and human rights violations have been intensified in the Kashmir valley which needs the attention of the world community, he added.
The spokesperson said that the 44th session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) which held in Abidjan, Republic of Cote d’Ivoire, on July 10-11, 2017, condemned the ‘state terrorism’ in the Kashmir valley and called upon India to implement the United Nations Security Council resolutions on Kashmir.
Nafees Zakaria said that the resolution which was unanimously adopted by the 56 member Council, noted that Jammu & Kashmir remains the core dispute between India and Pakistan, and its early resolution is imperative for bringing peace to South Asia.
He said that the Council expressed its support to the widespread indigenous movement of the people of Jammu & Kashmir for their promised right to self-determination and observed that the just struggle of Kashmiris cannot be equated with terrorism.
The spokesperson said that the Council also called upon the United Nations and the International Community to play their due role in stopping the continuing bloodshed in Kashmir and for the implementation of the UN Security Council’s Resolutions on Jammu & Kashmir, which guarantee Kashmiris’ right to self-determination through a UN supervised plebiscite.