ABDUL RASHEED AZAD

ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz has said that Pakistan was fully responding to the Indian aggression along the Line of Control (LoC) and the Working Boundary (WB).

He was talking to journalists after inquiring about the health of JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman.

Sartaj Aziz said Pakistan’s desire for peace should not be taken as its weakness. He said: “We are making efforts at the international level to make the UN military observers mission more active.”

Aziz said the government will send representatives and delegations to different countries to inform them about the Indian aggression on the Line of Control as well as human rights violations by Indian forces in occupied Kashmir. He said Pakistan was highlighting human rights violations by Indian forces in occupied Kashmir where India has deployed over 700,000 troops to suppress the Kashmiris.

“India wants to resolve the Kashmir dispute in its own way and Pakistan will not allow this Indian attempt to succeed. UN resolutions on Kashmir cannot be ignored this way,” Aziz maintained.

To a question regarding the Karachi operation, he said that terrorism has been contained in Karachi due to targeted operations launched last year.

To another question, he said backlash of the on-going military operation in North Waziristan was not so intense, but there was need to strengthen actions on military and intelligence level.

Speaking on the occasion, JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said: “We have to foil conspiracies being hatched to spread anarchy.”

He while showing surprise over the suicide attack said he was unaware of the reasons behind the attack, adding he has never supported terrorism.

He said his party was struggling for democracy in a democratic manner and “we believe in resolution of all issues through talks”. Jamaat-e-Islami Chief Siraj-ul-Haq also met JUI-F chief Mulan Fazlur Rehman and condemned the suicide attack on him in Quetta.