As expected, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif devoted most of his speech at the UN General Assembly session to the events in Kashmir (“Sharif seeks probe into Kashmir ‘killings’, Sept. 22). Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, in her speech later, is likely to make India’s stand clear, that Kashmir is an internal matter and no one should meddle in it. She may also highlight the human rights violations in Balochistan and Pakistan occupied-Kashmir as well as Pakistan’s role in terror attacks against India. So far, India has been busy on the diplomatic front, building up pressure to declare Pakistan as a ‘terror-sponsor state’.
Some may think that India’s response has been mild so far, but the country has done the right thing in not resorting to direct military action that could have serious repercussions on the peoples of both sides. It is important that we improve our intelligence and security along vulnerable areas near the Line of Control and in Jammu and Kashmir. It is lack of intelligence and security that have been highlighted as the main reasons for terror strikes in both the Pathankhot and Uri attacks.
D.B.N. Murthy,
Bengaluru
It is shocking that Mr. Sharif has glorified the terrorist, Burhan Wani, killed in a recent encounter in Kashmir as a “young leader”. Militants and militant states have one language, and civilised society has another language for expression. A hero for the militants is not a hero for normal civilised people.
Vanka Venkata Ramdas,
Tanuku, Andhra Pradesh
