Web Desk

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan condemned Israel&#39;s recognition of Somaliland as &quot;political aggression&quot; and called on Muslim-majority nations to intensify efforts on resolving the Kashmir and Palestine issues, the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tahir Andrabi, said Thursday. Briefing reporters on the week&#39;s diplomatic activities, Andrabi said Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar led Pakistan&#39;s <a href="https://www.pakistantv.com/article/oic-adopts-resolutions-condemning-israel-backing-somalia-and-palestine" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="noopener noreferrer">condemnation&nbsp;</a>at the 22nd Extraordinary Session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Council of Foreign Ministers in Jeddah. <div class="fr-embed"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; max-width: 550px; width: 100%; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><iframe id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="true" style="position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px; height: 640px; display: block; flex-grow: 1;" title="X Post" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=2011687834445603239&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fmain.d1wrm1qseko1cp.amplifyapp.com%2Farticles%2F3489%2F&sessionId=2f6394d1ab89f25036544551f8bb6f578a0aa860&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" data-tweet-id="2011687834445603239"></iframe></div></div> Dar &quot;strongly condemned the illegal and unlawful <a href="https://www.pakistantv.com/article/somalia-calls-israeli-fm-visit-to-somaliland-an-incursion" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="noopener noreferrer">recognition by Israel</a> of the Somaliland region, as well as subsequent unwarranted and highly provocative visits of Israeli officials to the territory,&quot; the spokesman said. The foreign minister called such acts &quot;political aggression and a direct assault on Somalia&#39;s internationally recognized borders, setting a perilous precedent and threatening peace and security in the Horn of Africa, the Red Sea region, and beyond,&quot; Andrabi said. Kashmir, Palestine positions At the conference, Dar &quot;rejected any proposal for dislocation of the Palestinian people&quot; and reaffirmed Pakistan&#39;s commitment to &quot;an independent, contiguous, and sovereign state of Palestine based on the 1967 borders with [Jerusalem]&nbsp;as its capital,&quot; the spokesman said. The foreign minister &quot;urged the OIC to step up its efforts towards the realization of the right to self-determination of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.&quot; Presidential Bahrain visit At the weekly briefing, the spokesperson said that President Asif Ali Zardari is on an official visit to Bahrain. King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa has awarded President Zardari the Sheikh Isa Award during talks at Qudaibiya Palace in Manama. Earlier, the president received a guard of honor and discussed trade and investment, defense cooperation, support for Pakistan&#39;s expatriate community, and regional and global issues.&nbsp; The spokesman said that the visit &quot;seeks to reinforce Pakistan&#39;s long-standing cooperation with the brotherly Gulf nation, while expanding opportunities for collaboration in trade and economic partnerships, defense and security, and people-to-people ties.&quot; Qatar, regional diplomacy Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif spoke by phone with Qatar&#39;s Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, about recent developments in the Middle East.&nbsp; Sharif &quot;appreciated Qatar&#39;s constructive and proactive role in promoting peace, dialogue, and mediation across the region,&quot; the spokesman said.&nbsp; Both leaders agreed to remain in close contact. Jeddah consulate opening Foreign Minister Dar also inaugurated a new building for Pakistan&#39;s Consulate General in Jeddah, raising the Pakistani flag and planting a tree on the premises.&nbsp;The new facility will serve 1.8 million Pakistanis in western Saudi Arabia and &quot;improve service delivery for the Pakistani community there,&quot; the spokesman said. Bilateral meetings Dar held meetings in Jeddah with foreign ministers from Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Maldives, and Egypt, as well as Saudi Arabia&#39;s deputy foreign minister and the OIC secretary general, Andrabi said. The spokesman said Dar spoke by phone this week with foreign ministers from Uzbekistan, Iran, and Myanmar to discuss bilateral relations and regional issues. He also spoke with Indonesia&#39;s investment minister about strengthening economic partnerships.

Foreign Affairs

In the weekly briefing, the foreign office spokesperson said Pakistan condemned Israel’s recognition of Somaliland, and called on Muslim-majority nations to intensify efforts on resolving the Kashmir and Palestine issues.

Pakistan condemns Israeli recognition of Somaliland, presses OIC on Kashmir

NEW DELHI: Indian police have carried out sweeping raids targeting a banned political party in disputed Kashmir, days after the deadliest blast in the Indian capital for more than a decade. There has been no confirmation that the searches this week are connected to Monday&#39;s explosion, which killed at least 12 people near the historic Red Fort in the capital&#39;s Old Delhi quarter. &lsquo;Anti-national forces&rsquo;The raids represent a renewed effort by police to tighten security after the explosion, which the government called &quot;a heinous terror incident&quot; and blamed on &quot;anti-national forces.&quot; Many of the raids have taken place since Wednesday, according to district police statements from across Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). Police in Awantipora, Bandipora, Ganderbal, Shopian, and Sopore districts issued statements about the raids, which they said targeted the Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) party. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#39;s Hindu-nationalist government banned the Kashmir branch of Jamaat-e-Islami in 2019 as an &quot;unlawful association.&quot; &#39;Large-scale operations&#39;&nbsp;Officers carried out &quot;extensive raids at multiple locations&quot; to &quot;dismantle the terror ecosystem and its support structures&quot;, the police in Awantipora said in a statement. The department in Bandipora said they had seized &quot;incriminating material,&quot; while the Sopore police said it had carried out &quot;large-scale operations against JeI-linked networks&quot;, adding that more than 30 locations were searched. Officers also raided Al-Falah University in Faridabad, on the southern outskirts of the capital, while security forces on Friday demolished a house in Kashmir&#39;s Pulwama district. Police have not commented on the demolition, although law enforcement agencies have carried out such destruction against those accused of launching attacks in the past. India&#39;s anti-terrorism National Investigation Agency (NIA) is leading the probe into Monday&#39;s blast, and the government has vowed to bring the &quot;perpetrators, their collaborators, and their sponsors&quot; to justice. Little information&nbsp;But officials, so far, have given little further information on who that might be -- and whether it was a homegrown group or had links from abroad. Indian media have widely connected the Nov. 10 blast with a string of arrests just hours before, when they seized explosive materials and assault rifles. Police said those arrested were linked with Jaish-e-Mohammed and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind groups. Concerning those arrests, police said on Monday, shortly before the explosion, that their investigations had &quot;revealed a white-collar terror ecosystem, involving radicalised professionals and students in contact with foreign handlers, operating from Pakistan and other countries.&quot; The blast in Delhi was the most significant security incident since April 22, when 26 people were killed at the tourist site of Pahalgam in IIOJK, triggering clashes with Pakistan.

India

There has been no confirmation that the searches this week are connected to Monday's explosion, which killed at least 12 people near the historic Red Fort in the capital's Old Delhi quarter.

Articles tagged with "Occupied Kashmir"

Pakistan condemns Israeli recognition of Somaliland, presses OIC on Kashmir

Indian police carry out sweeping raids in Occupied Kashmir