J K News Today
Jammu
Pakistan has termed the joint statement of six Kashmiri Parties issued in Srinagar on Saturday last as the first step toward the new resistance movement of the newly formed political alliance against the August 5, 2019 abrogation of the special status and statehood of Jammu and Kashmir.
Six parties and their leaders including National Conference president Farooq Abdullah, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, JKPCC president Ghulam Ahmad Mir, People’s Conference chairman Sajjad Gani Lone ,CPI_M leader Mohammad Yusuf Tarigami and Awani National Conference president Muzaffar Hussain Shah, had issued a strongly worded statement calling for the restoration of the special status and statehood of J&K as it existed on August 4, 2019 .
Cherry picking the parts suiting Pakistan’s own narration on the change in the constitutional status of J&K within the Indian constitution under the prescribed parameters of the Presidential declaration duly approved by the vast majority of the Parliament, Pakistan Foreign Minister Qureshi said that this was a very big political statement .
He quoted this part of the statement in which the Kashmiri leaders stated : “ We want to assure the people that all our political activities will be subservient to the sacred goal of reverting to the status of J&K as it existed on 4th August , 2019 ,”with an obvious emphasis to send a message of support to the signatories of the joint statement .
Qureshi made these remarks at a press conference in Islamabad two days after his return from China where he discussed Kashmir issue with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi , both of them invoked the U N resolutions .
Normally, Pakistan would dismiss all the statements of mainstream leaders of Kashmir as the ones as an echo of Delhi, but finding that it was different and in line with Pakistan’s own stand that the Article 370 be restored, it has hailed the statement . It is an open statement of support of Pakistan to the alliance and its statement .
