Bilawal Bhutto says PM Modi statement provocative

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chief Bilawal Bhutto on Wednesday termed PM Narendra Modi’s statement about Baloch-istan and Gilgit-Baltistan as highly provocative, irresponsible and inflammatory.

The PPP leader said Mr Modi should first stand accountable to the international community for “unending and perpetual atrocities against Kashmiris, Muslims and Dalits in Kashmir and India.”

“Balochistan is an integral part of a democratic Pakistan and follies of a dictator cannot empower the Indian Prime Minister to speak on our internal issues,” he said in a statement.

Bilawal Bhutto said that Kashmir was under curfew since many weeks and 79 innocent Kashmiris have been killed by the Indian armed forces within last two months alone.

“Mr Modi may have some yaars (close friends) in Pakistan but the people of Pakistan won’t tolerate such language,” he added.

Mr Bilawal Bhutto also called upon the United Nations Security Council to intervene immediately to halt the war-mongering Indian Prime Minister Modi from dragging the region to devastation and to uphold sanity. He said the PPP workers were standing with the people of Pakistan in a unified and integrated unity to fight against any aggression from the enemy.