ISLAMABAD – Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has regretted that the world community is keeping mum over the growing plight of the Kashmiri people, the Radio Pakistan reported.
While addressing a function at the Institute of Policy Study on “Pakistan-India Relations and acceleration of freedom movement in Occupied Kashmir, the foreign minister paid tribute to the people of Occupied Kashmir who are continuing their freedom struggle despite the raging Indian violence and atrocities.
Qureshi said that Pakistan gave a befitting response when India resorted to aggression in the wake of Pulwama incident.
The foreign minister urged the need for national consensus on the issue of security and said that it was under this spirit that he wrote letters to parliamentary leaders of different political parties and personally contacted the leaders of Pakistan Peoples’ Party and Pakistan Muslim League.
He said though the response of the opposition parties on these issues was not negative but they hesitated to act promptly on such issues of national importance.
