NEW DELHI: Barely 48 hours ahead of the Border Police chiefs-level talks with India, Pakistan Army chief, Gen Raheel Sharif, today raised the Kashmir problem, threatening “the enemy” of “unbearable cost” of any misadventure-either short or long war.
New Delhi rejected Gen Sharif’s utterances, saying that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of the country and only pending is how to end the illegal occupation of the remaining part of the state.
Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office, Jitendra Singh, said the utterances hardly deserve my response. ”India’s stand on Kashmir is very clear. Our stand is that entire Jammu and Kashmir is, and will remain integral part of India.
“Only issue which remains to be resolved is, how to retrieve the rest of the part of the state which is in illegal occupation of Pakistan,” he added.
Gen Sharif, addressing an army function, said Kashmiris were being subjected to injustice by the Indian forces.
He also raised the bogey of war saying that “If the enemy ever resorts to any misadventure, regardless of its size and scale ? hot or cold ? it will have to pay an unbearable cost.”
Gen Sharif’s high decibel pitch on the Kashmir problem comes at time when the DG BSF, DK Pathak, is slated to hold talks with his Pakistani counterpart from September 9 to 13 at Wagah-Attari border post.
Pakistan’s National Security Advisor, Sartaj Aziz, was in the audience when Gen Sharif made the comments. (AGENCIES)
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