Movement passes on to new generation: Pakistan

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ISLAMABAD (AFP) – Pakistan on Friday accused arch-rival India of ‘brutality’ and condemned its deadly crackdown on protesters clamouring for an end to Indian rule in Held Kashmir.
“Pakistan strongly condemns the brutality and the blatant use of force by Indian security forces,” said Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi.
“Gross and systematic abuse of human rights and Indian repression in Kashmir must end. Pakistan calls upon the government of India to exercise restraint,” he said, describing killings, arrests and detentions as ‘unacceptable’.
Monitoring Desk adds: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said India should realise that the Kashmir freedom movement has transformed into a people’s movement, which is peaceful, and has now passed on to the new generation.
Talking to BBC on Friday, Qureshi maintained that Indian could not suppress the ongoing freedom movement of Kashmiris through use of brute force.
“How many more Kashmiris India wants to murder and how long it will continue to silence their voices through bullets?” he asked.
He said India should be more realistic and face this reality instead of avoiding this decades-old dispute.
The present protests by Kashmiris reflect that New Delhi has failed to crush the freedom movement with the use of State force, he said, adding, “The Kashmir dispute can only be resolved through political means.”
“It is a contentious issue and India should have to take it as a serious matter, otherwise peace cannot be maintained in South Asia,” the FM said.