Jammu and Kashmir: Former Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and BJP Leader Kavinder Gupta On Sunday, All Parties Hurriyat Conference chairperson Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was advised to refrain from commenting on India’s foreign policy, stressing that the government is capable of handling its relations. Pakistan,
Gupta’s statement came after Mirwaiz expressed hope for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on the upcoming visit of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to Pakistan.Shanghai Cooperation Organization) The meeting will promote constructive engagement between the two countries.
Speaking to ANI, Kavinder Gupta said, “The Ministry of External Affairs and the Government of India will think about their policy with Pakistan. Mirwaiz does not need to think or talk about India’s foreign policy, the government will do it for him. There should be more.” The concern is about India rather than Pakistan.”
Gupta stressed that Mirwaiz should focus on domestic issues instead of worrying about Pakistan, adding that Pakistan is notorious for promoting terrorism.
He said, “There is no need to give such advice to anyone. Pakistan gives birth and spreads terrorism, the country is the ‘instructor’ for terrorism. It is they who took them (Kashmiri Pandits) out, it is they who created them.” Such an environment,” Gupta said.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who resurfaced on social media after nearly five years, most of which he spent under house arrest, reiterated his commitment to a peaceful resolution of the conflict.
Mirwaiz said, “Generations of Kashmiris have been mired in uncertainty. We want an end to this, a fair conclusion. India and Pakistan have a real opportunity to break the ice and engage constructively at the upcoming SCO summit. There is hope.” That they’ll pay attention to it.” Wrote in a post on X.
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah also expressed hope on Saturday that the participation of Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in the SCO meeting in Pakistan later this month will help in establishing better relations between the two countries.
NC chief Abdullah said he felt the External Affairs Minister would talk about bringing peace between the two countries through friendship and not through hatred.
“It is a good thing. The PM attends these meetings, I am happy that S Jaishankar is going, Pakistan has invited him. I think he will hold talks beyond the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) that these two countries How to bring peace between – friendship and not hatred, said the National Conference leader.
National Conference provincial president Ratan Lal Gupta said that his party welcomes the government’s decision to participate in the SCO meeting. He said the NC has always called for maintaining good relations with neighbours.
“We welcome it,” he said. I think this is a very good time because the National Conference has always said that we should have good relations with our neighbours, especially Pakistan and dialogue with them. So, now that the Foreign Minister of India is visiting Pakistan, we welcome it and I hope that new avenues of dialogue will open. As former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had said that we can change friends, but not neighbours, we believe that if we have good relations with our neighbors they will also move forward and we will also move forward.”
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will lead the Indian delegation to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of Heads of Government meeting in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad on October 15-16.
However, the Foreign Minister clarified that he is visiting Pakistan only keeping the SCO in mind.
“I expect there will be a lot of media interest in it because that’s the nature of the relationship and I think we’ll deal with it. But I want to say that it would be for a multilateral event, I mean I’m not “I am going there to discuss India-Pakistan relations to be a good member of SCO, because I am a polite and decent person,” he said.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a permanent intergovernmental international organization established in Shanghai on 15 June 2001 by Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Its predecessor was the system of the Shanghai Five.
Currently, the SCO countries include nine member states – India, Iran, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. SCO has three observer states – Afghanistan, Mongolia and Belarus.
At the Samarkand SCO summit in 2022, the process of elevating Belarus’s status within the organization to the status of a member state began. SCO has 14 dialogue partners – Azerbaijan, Armenia, Bahrain, Egypt, Cambodia, Qatar, Kuwait, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Sri Lanka.
Pakistan, which holds the rotating chairmanship of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), is scheduled to host the SCO Council of Heads of Government (CHG) in Islamabad in October this year, Geo News reported.
Earlier in August, India had received an invitation from Pakistan for an in-person meeting of the SCO Council of Heads of Government (CHG). Addressing a briefing in August, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal confirmed the invitation by Islamabad for the SCO meeting.
