{"id":308684,"date":"2019-01-31T05:02:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T05:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308684"},"modified":"2019-01-31T05:02:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T05:02:02","slug":"india-tells-pakistan-to-lay-off-from-jammu-and-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-tells-pakistan-to-lay-off-from-jammu-and-kashmir\/","title":{"rendered":"India tells Pakistan to lay off from Jammu and Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-308685 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/shah-mirviaz-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/shah-mirviaz-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/shah-mirviaz.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India told Pakistan on Wednesday to lay off on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir after a telephone conversation between Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale summoned Pakistan High Commissioner Sohail Mahmood and conveyed Government of India\u2019s condemnation in \u201cthe strongest terms of this latest brazen attempt by Pakistan to subvert India\u2019s unity and to violate our sovereignty and territorial integrity, by none other than the Pakistan Foreign Minister\u201d, the External Affairs Ministry said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe Foreign Secretary conveyed that this deplorable act has violated all norms for the conduct of international relations even by Pakistan\u2019s own standards,\u201d the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe Pakistan Foreign Minister\u2019s actions are tantamount to direct interference in the internal affairs of its neighbour,\u201d it stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cForeign Secretary underscored that by this action Pakistan has confirmed yet again that it officially abets and encourages individuals associated with terrorism and anti-India activities,\u201d it added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Gokhale said that it has exposed to the entire international community Pakistan\u2019s duplicity in professing their desire for normal relations with India on the one hand, while openly inciting anti-India activities on the other.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Pakistan High Commissioner was categorically informed by the Foreign Secretary that the Government of India expects Pakistan to desist forthwith from such actions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He was cautioned that persistence of such behaviour by Pakistan will have implications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Gokhale made it clear that \u201cJammu and Kashmir has been, is and shall remain the integral part of India and that Pakistan has no locus standi in any matters related to the State of Jammu and Kashmir.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India told Pakistan on Wednesday to lay off on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir after a telephone conversation between Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference. Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale summoned Pakistan High Commissioner Sohail Mahmood and conveyed Government of India\u2019s condemnation in \u201cthe strongest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":308685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,36,2009,2014],"tags":[1141,2596,5166],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308686,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308684\/revisions\/308686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}