Pak offers aid to Kashmir; India says No
posted on Aug 14, 2016 @ 4:03PM
India has rejected the 'aid' that Pakistan has offered for Kashmir, which is slowly limping back to normalcy after an unrest in the state. The official spokesperson of Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Vikas Swarup, said that the Indian High Commission in Islamabad had received a note from the Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on August 12 regarding a proposal to send supplies to Kashmir. "I can only characterise its contents that propose sending supplies to Indian state of J&K as absurd." He said, "India has already received enough of Pak's trademark exports - international terrorism, cross border infiltrators, weapons and narcotics."
"We completely and categorically reject this purported communication from the Pak foreign Ministry," he added. This development comes after Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had earlier this month vowed to provide medical help to those injured in the Kashmir violence and called on the international community to ask India to provide access for treatment of victims.
"Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has called upon the international community to immediately help arrange medical treatment for the victims" in Kashmir, especially for treatment of eye injuries resulting from use of pellet guns by the Indian forces. The Prime Minister conveyed Pakistan's unequivocal support in arranging best available medical facilities to these injured people, anywhere in the world," a Pakistan Foreign Office statement said.