Pak minister says nations backing India over Kashmir will be targetted

Yet another Pakistan minister has courted the media glare for the wrong reasons. Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit Baltistan Ali Amin Gandapur on Tuesday said that India and nations supporting India over Kashmir will be considered Pakistan's enemies and will be targetted with missiles. The minister while speaking at an event said, "Ïf tensions with India rises on Kashmir, Pakistan will be compelled to go to war. Hence, those countries backing India and not Pakistan will be considered as our enemy and a missile will be fired at India and those nations supporting it."

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Watch the video of the Pak minister making the statement below:

The video was tweeted by a Pakistani journalist on Tuesday. The anti-India rhetoric gathered several criticisms from within the country. Below is the video.

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Pakistan's failure to internationalise Kashmir

The anti-India threat comes after Islamabad failed at every level to internationalise support for its objection to Kashmir's integration with India. Meanwhile, India continues to gain support for the move by most of the global powers. Barring Pakistan's all-weather friend China, and now Turkey, India has not faced any opposition on the global platform.

India has consistently maintained that Kashmir is an internal matter for India. Key global players like the US, Russia, France etc have resisted the pressure by Pakistan to seek international intervention. Pakistan failed to garner support from Islamic nations in the Arab world.

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European Parliamentarians visit Kashmir

Earlier on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met a delegation of 28 members of the Parliamentarians from Europe. He discussed the relationship between India and the members of the European nations, amongst various other issues. The 28 member delegation will visit Kashmir on Wednesday. 

Terrorists kill non-locals in Kashmir during European visit

Terrorists killed five non-local labourers and another injured in South Kashmir's Kulgam region on Tuesday, in a sixth attack in the past two weeks. The bodies of the non-Kashmiris have been recovered and the injured from West Bengal has been taken to Srinagar for further treatment.  This is the first incident emerging from Kulgam, as Pakistan backed terror outfits are attempting to disrupt peace in the valley and attempt to batter the economy by attacking apple traders in Kashmir.

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