Karachi, May 06, 2023 (PPI-OT): Chairman Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has termed his India visit is successful and said that there has been no change in Pakistan’s principled stand on the Kashmir issue as well as bilateral relations with New Delhi, adding that he has presented Pakistan’s narrative on Indian soil. He also clarified that unless India withdraws the illegal unilateral move of August 2019, the meaningful talks are not possible between the two countries.
Addressing a press conference in Karachi on his return after attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in Goa, Chairman PPP said that he highlighted the Kashmir cause on Indian soil, where a one-sided narrative about Kashmir was being propagated among the Indian people. “We responded to the false propaganda of BJP and RSS in the meeting,” he added.
Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that RSS and BJP have been trying to declare Muslims around the world as terrorists, adding, “If a Muslim lives in India, they call him a terrorist, and if a Pakistani is seen, he is also called a terrorist.” But when they make such allegations, and the son of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto is sitting in front of them, that is enough for them.
He said that on the ticket of Pakistan People’s Party, people from the Pakistani minority community become members of the national and provincial assemblies and also ministers, but he was surprised to know that the BJP in India does not allow any Muslim political leader to enter the assembly, adding that the minorities have equal rights in Pakistan.
Chairman PPP said that he did not meet the Prime Minister or the Foreign Minister during his visit to India, but met with the Foreign Ministers of all the other member countries of the SCO. He said that through his visit, he gave a message to the people of India and the new generation that peace should not be held hostage by the past. “I believe peace as the destination. If not today then tomorrow we will achieve that destination,” he hoped.
Replying a question, youngest foreign minister of Pakistan’s history said that false propaganda is spread in India, especially by the party represented by the foreign minister of India, adding, “By going there, we break their false propaganda.” He said that India’s narrative has been rejected, the world has seen how much Pakistan has sacrificed in war against terrorism. He said that when Bilawal Bhutto Zardari sits in front of them, their false narrative breaks. He added that when they try to give the impression that every Muslim is a terrorist so that they can win elections by spreading their propaganda, has been brusted.
In response to another question, Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that fixing the head money for foreign minister of any country is not set by a political organization but by a terrorist organization. “We don’t want to fight terrorism because India tells us to, but we fight terrorism because Pakistanis are the most affected, and we are bearing the brunt of it,” he said.
In response to a question asked by the media regarding India-Pakistan bilateral relations, he said that if bilateral talks are held, a document comes at the end of which both we and India have to sign. But India has violated its bilateral agreements, international ambitions from one step, now there is distrust that if they can unilaterally violate the earlier mutual agreements, if the talks start now and the result of an agreement is reached, they will unilaterally violate it.
Foreign Minister said that everyone he met during the Goa Summit has appreciated the CPEC project, every SCO member except India appreciates the CPEC, Pakistan’s sacrifices against terrorists. The world has to deliver. He further said that we will have the chairmanship of SCO in the year 2026 and we will try to make India take such a decision through diplomatic efforts to participate in the meeting at that time. During the press conference of Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah and Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were also present.
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