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    IndiaPak pokes again; Sharif to send MPs abroad to highlight Kashmir issue

    Pak pokes again; Sharif to send MPs abroad to highlight Kashmir issue

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    New Delhi: In a move which would further escalate tensions between India and Pakistan, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is reportedly planning to send a group of emissaries to different parts of the to raise the issue.

    Citing the Pakistani media, a news agency reported that PM Sharif has appointed 22 parliamentarians as special envoys to highlight the issue.

    Pakistan has upped the ante against after Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised the issue of Balochistan and the Pakistan occupied Kashmir.

    He had accused the Pakistani government of blatant human rights violations against the Baloch and the Kashmiri people.

    Islamabad had also recently announced to take up the Kashmir issue at every forums, including the United Nations.

    Various Baloch rights leaders have praised PM Modi for his comments, prompting Pakistan to lodge FIRs against them for their open support to India.

    On Saturday, the overseas Baloch have the Indian flag in Leipzig, Germany while protesting against Pakistan.

    Upping the ante, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Saturday, “Our responsibility (is) that we free PoK and Gilgit Baltistan from the illegal occupation of Pakistan.

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