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Global community must take cognizance of Sharif's communication to Andrabi: NPP

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ANI Jammu and Kashmir/New Delhi

Showing their displeasure to Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who has written a letter to Separatist leader Asiya Andrabi, appreciating her struggle in raising the Kashmir issue, the National Panthers Party (NPP) today said it is highly condemnable and international community must take due cognizance of the latter.

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(NPP) Chairman, Harsh Dev Singh said that it is evident that Pakistan is interfering in the internal affair of India and supporting subversive separatist and international element in Indian soils.

"I think this issue needs to be taken be very seriously by government of India with the united nation as well as the international community that Pakistan has refused to mend it ways despite the international pressures and it is still promoting terrorism and such elements within our country," he added.

 

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Singh further added that Pakistan made such statements earlier that it will continue to give moral as well as material support to such elements in Jammu and Kashmir.

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"This we believe is highly condemnable. International community must take due cognizance of the latter," he added

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Singh also highlighted that such people should be booked under the offence of sedition

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Further adding discontent to PM Shrif, (NPP) chief Bhim Singh said that this is to divert the attention of the people of Pakistan and India saying "The real issue is that Pakistan must withdraw from Jammu and Kashmir for larger peace."

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has written a letter to Separatist leader Asiya Andrabi appreciating her struggle in raising the Kashmir issue and said that Pakistan will continue raising this issue on all 'international' levels.

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According to Daily Pakistan, Sharif said this while responding to a letter by Andrabi and asserted that Pakistan will continue its moral and political support to the people of Kashmir in their struggle for right to self-determination that has been acknowledged by the United Nations.

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"Received your letter and I respect your feeling and appreciate you being a well wisher for the people of Pakistan. The issue of Kashmir is an international one and has been pending since 1947. Pakistan knows its responsibility about Kashmir issue and will continue to raise this issue on all international levels," Sharif said in his letter addressed to the Separatist leader.

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He also accused India of going back on its promise to the international community that Kashmir would be given the right to choose its political future through the exercise of self determination and that this was a betrayal, the daily reports.

The Prime Minister had earlier called for a third party intervention into the Kashmir issue since Pakistan had not received adequate response from India.

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India, however, has rejected any third party intervention to the Kashmir issue and has maintained that all outstanding matters in the Indo-Pak ties should be resolved bilaterally.

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First Published: Nov 16 2015 | 3:00 PM IST

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