{"id":35885,"date":"2017-12-09T12:15:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T07:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=35885"},"modified":"2017-12-09T12:15:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T07:15:02","slug":"kasuri-tells-india-not-to-confuse-current-anti-delhi-uprising-in-iok-with-islamic-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=35885","title":{"rendered":"Kasuri tells India not to confuse current anti-Delhi uprising in IOK with \u2018Islamic terrorism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Says dialogue is the only way forward. Its early resumption should be our top priority<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW DELHI Dec 09 (TNS):<\/strong> Former foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri told India here on Friday to not confuse an ongoing anti-Delhi uprising in the Kashmir Valley with any activities of the militant Islamic State group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt may be dangerous to paint the current uprising of the Kashmiri people as inspired by \u2018Islamist terrorism\u2019,\u201d Mr Kasuri said during a discussion on India-Pakistan ties, his second in two days in Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kasuri said that statements of certain extremist elements were prominently displayed and IS flags were also shown as being waved during demonstrations in Kashmir. \u201cIt is clear from the reports in the Indian media, that, overwhelmingly it is the Pakistani flags that are waved, and, there are very few Daesh [the Arabic acronym for IS] flags in such public demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Kashmir issue is not dealt with politically, matters may actually get out of hand. Let us hope that the day never arises when Pakistani flags are replaced by Daesh flags. If, unfortunately, it does happen, it will have been a case of a self-fulfilling prophecy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kasuri was joined at the discussion, sponsored by the Ananta Aspen Centre, by former Congress MP Mani Shankar Aiyer who chaired the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>His presence was significant since the discussion was taking place a day after Mr Aiyer was expelled from the Congress party for allegedly calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a vile man.<\/p>\n<p>Former Indian high commissioner to Pakistan Satin\u00adder Lambah also took part in the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kasuri said that despite strained ties bet\u00adween the two countries, he was pleased to see a large support for the resumption of talks between India and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current situation is so bad and the atmosphere so vitiated in South Asia that it has effectively put an end to regional cooperation, where even a meeting of the heads of Saarc [South Asian Association for Regi\u00adonal Co\u00adoperation] countries could not be held,\u201d Mr Kasuri regretted.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was futile and counterproductive for India to believe that it could isolate Pakistan or mount pressure through a third country to surrender its interests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince neither side can win a war, peace is the only way forward. For that an early resumption of dialogue should be our top priority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Says dialogue is the only way forward. Its early resumption should be our top priority NEW DELHI Dec 09 (TNS): Former foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri told India here on Friday to not confuse an ongoing anti-Delhi uprising in the Kashmir Valley with any activities of the militant Islamic State group. \u201cIt may be dangerous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[172,733],"class_list":["post-35885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-new-dehli","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35887,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35885\/revisions\/35887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}