Modi misled Brics, Bimstec leaders: Pakistan

Pakistan on Sunday accused Indian leaders of misleading Brics members with remarks that Pakistan was the “mothership of terrorism”. “Mr Modi is misleading his BRICS and BIMSTEC colleagues,” Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif’s advisor on foreign affairs Sartaj Aziz said. He said India is “desperately trying to hide its brutalities” in J&K.

Mr Aziz said Pakistan joins all the Brics members in condemning terrorism and reaffirms its full commitment to fight the menace without discrimination, “including against the Indian state-sponsored terrorism on Pakistani soil”.

Mr Aziz said the UN Human Rights High Commissioner in Geneva and the secretary general of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation have called for sending a fact-finding mission to Kashmir.

He said The UN and OIC have “rejected Indian attempts to equate Kashmiris‘ movement for self-determination with terrorism.”

He said the UN has repeatedly emphasised that people fighting for their self-determination cannot be categorised as terrorists by the occupying state. Accusing India of “terror financing”, Aziz said, “India has no moral ground to even talk about counter-terrorism efforts let alone do the finger pointing.”