United
Nations, Sept 23: Pakistan has said that India's strategy of “offensive
defence and double squeeze” -- aspiring towards regional hegemony -- would
never succeed. Responding yesterday to the comments made by Indian delegate
Eenam Gambhir in which she had criticised Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi’s
address to the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, the Pakistani
delegate Tipu Usma said that PM Abbasi was only reflecting the "sentiments
and aspirations of the oppressed and suffering people of Kashmir", who had
been living "under India’s brutal occupation" since decades. PM
Abbasi had urged the world body to fulfill its promises and grant the
struggling people of Kashmir their due right to self-determination in his
speech to the UN, a report in The Express Tribune today said. Earlier, Eenam
Gambhir had said that Pakistan regularly indulged in cross-border terrorism.
She also said that Kashmir was an integral part of India. “The root cause of
all the ills plaguing South Asia is the unresolved Jammu and Kashmir dispute,”
the Pakistani delegate told the 193-member Assembly. He pointed out that Indian
troops had indulged in cross-border shelling across the Line of Control on the
Pakistani side of Jammu and Kashmir, just before Abbasi was about to address
the UN, killing 10 civilians. “A sad reminder of Indian intransigence and
stubbornness. This too, shall fail,” Usman said, referring to the incident.
Usman also stressed that Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval’s strategy
of “offensive defence and double squeeze”, aspiring towards regional hegemony,
would never succeed. The Pakistani delegate said that Kulbhushan Jadhav, “the
Indian operator of mayhem and terrorism,” was caught red-handed in Pakistan
while spying for the enemy. Jadhav had pleaded guilty to the charges of
sabotage, terrorism and espionage brought against him. “The Indian dream of
dominating the region will remain just that – a dream,” Usman told the
Assembly. Responding to an Afghan delegate who had accused Pakistan of failing
to eliminate terrorist safe havens in the country, Tipu Usman urged the Kabul
Government to stop blaming others for its own problems and instead work towards
eliminating the threat of terrorism on both sides of the border. UNI
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