Goa/Karachi: Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Friday said the people of Pakistan and India want peace, stressing that New Delhi must create a “conducive environment” for talks between the neighboring countries.
He expressed these views while talking to journalists on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting in the Indian state of Goa. Bilawal’s visit to India is the first visit by a Pakistani foreign minister to Delhi in over a decade and has garnered media attention in both countries. The foreign minister said that it is India’s responsibility to create a conducive environment for dialogue, adding that India’s decision to end the special status of illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir in 2019 has brought the neighbors closer together. Damaged the environment for negotiations between.
However, Bilawal said that despite his unusual visit to India, there has been no change in the state of diplomatic relations. “India took illegal actions in August 2019 and violated UN resolutions by its actions,” the FM said. The foreign minister hit back, saying Pakistan’s stand on the Kashmir issue was clear and firm, highlighting that India’s “unilateral actions” had affected relations between the two countries. He further said that India will have to withdraw the decision of August 5. Bilawal further discussed the tension between the two countries regarding sports and said that it should be separated from politics and foreign policy. The foreign minister, who is also the chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), said that he tried to send Pakistan cricket blinds to India but they were not issued visas. Why is India afraid of Pakistan’s blind cricket team? he questioned. “I have tried to limit Pakistan’s internal politics to its borders.” Bilawal also said that when Pakistan gets the chairmanship of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, it can also hold a successful meeting. will
Regarding Indian Foreign Minister Subramaniam Jaishankar’s welcome with Namaste, Bilawal said that it is a “civilized” way to welcome each other in this way. “In Sindh, we welcome each other like this,” the Indian foreign minister said, greeting other foreign ministers, including China’s Qin Gang, with namastes as they arrived at the venue and there were no handshakes. “Dr. S. Jaishankar never made me feel that our bilateral relationship affected our engagement in the SCOFM meeting,” Bilawal said.
Earlier addressing the SCO Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) summit, Bilawal Bhutto warned member states against “weaponizing terrorism for diplomatic point scoring” without naming India. “The collective security of our people is our shared responsibility. Terrorism threatens global security. Let us not fall into the cycle of weaponizing terrorism for diplomatic point scoring,” Bilawal said. The foreign minister stressed that not only a “comprehensive approach but also a collective approach” is needed to end the scourge. He said that there is a need to focus on the root causes as well as the threats posed by specific groups. “It requires that we unite to fight this challenge rather than divide us to become its victims. Our success requires that we separate the issue from geopolitical partnerships.” “There are practical, practical solutions for us to end this chapter once and for all,” he added. “We must stop conflating non-state actors with state actors. We condemn all forms of terrorism, including state-sponsored terrorism,” he stressed. Furthermore, Bilawal said on Twitter that “Tomorrow China and The foreign ministers of Afghanistan will visit Pakistan where we will attend bilateral meetings, followed by a trilateral meeting between our three countries.” Earlier, Indian Foreign Minister Subramaniam Jaishankar said before Bilawal’s address that The scourge of terrorism continues unabated, he said, adding that turning a blind eye to this scourge is detrimental to everyone’s security interests. He added that Bhutto’s address “shows the mentality of this country”. “His position was known and he was called.”
Later, while addressing a press conference in Karachi after returning from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting in Goa, Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has clarified that there has been no change in Pakistan’s principled position on the Kashmir issue and there has been no change in bilateral relations. came. Delhi as soon as he went to India to present Pakistan’s case on the matter.
The Foreign Minister said that he successfully highlighted the Kashmir cause on Indian soil. Bilawal clarified that the purpose of his recent visit to India was to present Pakistan’s position and case (on the Kashmir issue) as he had a very successful visit to the neighboring country. He clarified that there has been no change in Pakistan’s stand on the Kashmir issue and bilateral relations with India. Bilawal said that despite facing the ban of not raising bilateral disputes between the two countries in India, he raised whatever issue he considered necessary in the neighboring country. In response to a question, Bilawal said that he has succeeded in presenting Pakistan’s position at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting in India. The foreign minister said that our principled position is that there can be no progress in bilateral relations (with India) until India withdraws its August 2019 decision (on Kashmir).
He said that it is the policy of Indian organizations BJP and RSS to blame Muslim countries for the issue of terrorism. Bilawal said that the People’s Party nominated its candidates from the Hindu community to become members of the National and Provincial Assemblies in Pakistan, but he was surprised that the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) in both the upper and lower houses of the Indian Parliament. There is no legislator. Muslim.
Bilawal Bhutto told the media that he is leaving for Islamabad immediately where he will meet the foreign ministers of China and Afghanistan. He said that I believe that peace is our final goal, if not today then tomorrow we will definitely achieve this goal. He said that it is a great success of Pakistan that the Kashmir issue was raised on Indian soil. He said that whatever statements were made by the Indian Foreign Minister were of his own volition as his (Indian) sense of insecurity was reflected in his criticism.
Bilawal Bhutto said that the political party to which the Indian Foreign Minister belongs is spreading false propaganda. The foreign minister said that he is trying to prove that every Pakistani is a terrorist because if he does not do this, his false propaganda will die. “While this is not the case because the whole world has recognized Pakistan as the country most affected by terrorism”. He said that they (Indians) are angry because Pakistan has objected to their narrative.
He said that the political parties did not announce the bounty (for killing opponents) because the BJP has done such a thing that one should know whether the BJP is a political party or a terrorist organisation. But we will not deviate from our stand and ideology,” he added.
