Pakistan moves UN over truce violations

NEW DELHI: As Pakistan passed a resolution condemning India's alleged ceasefire violations and seeking a UN intervention, India on Friday described the exercise as the neighbouring country's “internationalization process'' meant for domestic consumption and that it did not impinge on India's position that there is no third party in the J&K dispute.
Ahead of the planned ‘Kashmir Million March’ in London by pro-Pakistan groups, the government also said the event could not “overawe'' a country of over a billion people.
“Now it is possible that forces inimical to India-UK relations may utilise opportunities of this sort and it was in this context that we discussed with UK and we were reassured repeatedly that the UK's view is very clear that it is for India and Pakistan to resolve any issue that they have by themselves.
“With that reassurance, we are quite comfortable of any march being organised, be it the so-called million march because we, as I said, are country of a billion. Even millions do not overawe us...,” MEA spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had raised with deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg organisation of the planned anti-India march during her visit to London last week.

The “Million March” is planned on October 26 from London's Trafalgar Square to highlight the Kashmir issue.
Asked about Pakistani parliament passing a resolution on Thursday against the alleged “unprovoked and indiscriminate” ceasefire violations by India and seeking UN intervention to resolve the Kashmir issue, the spokesperson said it was aimed at the domestic audience and that India opposed the option of involvement of any third party.
While there is some speculation that PM Narendra Modi could meet his counterpart Nawaz Sharif during the Saarc summit next month in Kathmandu, officials from both sides maintain that there is no move to propose such a meeting. Pakistan high commissioner Abdul Basit recently sent sweets to Modi and foreign minister Sushma Swaraj as he conveyed his Diwali greetings to both the leaders.