Whereas there was no official response from India, authorities sources stated Pakistan ought to take a look at its personal document of getting persecuted persistently its ethnic and spiritual minorities. Islamabad’s feedback got here amid hypothesis, following PM Narendra Modi’s congratulatory messages to his Pakistan counterpart Shehbaz Sharifand the latter’s response, a couple of attainable assembly between the leaders on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Tashkent in July.
India authorities sources stated although it was too early to speak a couple of summit-level assembly and that there was no formal proposal for a gathering but. Whereas each leaders known as for constructive engagement, in addition they underlined the importance of first addressing what they noticed as core points — terrorism for India and J&Okay for Pakistan.
India and Pakistan haven’t had any substantive bilateral engagement since December 2015 once they launched the excellent bilateral dialogue course of. This although was nipped within the bud by the Pathankot airbase terror assault that occurred weeks later.
In its assertion, Pakistan known as upon the worldwide neighborhood, notably the UN and related worldwide human rights and humanitarian organisations to carry India accountable for its “gross human rights violations towards minorities, notably Muslims”.