India talks tough, will talk only on Pak occupied Kashmir |
Defence minister Rajnath Singh declared on Sunday that if talks are held with Pakistan, they will be only on Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). The Union defence minister was addressing a public rally in Haryana ahead of flagging off the BJP`s Jan Ashirwad Yatra for the forthcoming Assembly polls. Under the Simla Agreement of 1972, both India and Pakistan had agreed that talks on the Kashmir issue would be bilateral New Delhi will only focus on getting PoK vacated by Pakistan during any talks in the future. On India bifurcating its state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and revoking Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, Mr Singh said the decisions had sent jitters to Pakistan and had become a cause of concern for them. Meanwhile, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan continued to run a vicious campaign against India. In a series of vitriolic tweets, Mr Khan claimed, “India has been captured, as Germany had been captured by Nazis, by a fascist, racist Hindu Supremacist ideology and leadership. This threatens nine million Kashmiris under siege ... (in Kashmir) for over two weeks which should have sent alarm bells ringing across the world Attempting to raise a scare on the nuclear issue, the Pakistan PM claimed, “The World must also seriously consider the safety and security of India`s nuclear arsenal.
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