Srinagar:<\/i><\/b> Jammu and Kashmir Public Works Minister and official spokesman of the J&K government Naeem Akhtar has said that China is on its way to assuming a \u201cmuch bigger role in Kashmir\u201d and the Jaish-e-Mohammad has been veritably \u201cadopted\u201d by Beijing, said a media report on Tuesday.<\/i>
\n“It\u2019s the \u201cgrowing influence of China\u201d which has made it imperative to engage with Pakistan, ” Akhtar told The Indian Express<\/i>
\n\u201cUnlike earlier, the great game is literally being played inside Kashmir,\u201d The Indian Express reported quoting Akhtar. \u201cThe Kashmir issue isn\u2019t limited to the fight between India and Pakistan now. There is another major factor involved.”<\/i>
\nAccording to report, Akhtar said,”It isn\u2019t Pakistan alone, it is China too. General (Bipin Rawat) said that the Army is ready to fight on both fronts. But there aren\u2019t two fronts anymore. Now it is one single front, circling around. From Bhutan to Arunachal Pradesh, Ladakh, Valley to Jammu, Sri Lanka and Maldives, it is all one front. Pakistan and China aren\u2019t separate\u201d.<\/i>
\n\u201cAll the big attacks inside J&K or even outside during last more than three years are attributed to Jaish-e-Mohammad, a group led by Masood Azhar,\u201d said Akhtar. \u201cHow can one not see that he (Masood Azhar) has been adopted by China? There are reports of some action taken against Hafiz Saeed. What about Masood Azhar? Even a lesser figure like Salahudin has been listed as a global terrorist in UN but the great wall of China has been erected around Azhar. China has been regularly vetoing attempts to designate him (Azhar) as a terrorist in United Nations. Such things don\u2019t happen without reason. Why only him? Why not others? Why didn\u2019t China block such moves in UN against other people? The China connection needs to be understood\u201d.<\/i>
\n\u201cAt this point, talking to Pakistan and initiating policies of reconciliation inside Kashmir is in the national interest. It is in our national interest that Pakistan doesn\u2019t get irretrievably sucked up by China,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cAnd when we say talk to Pakistan, we are addressing our own Central government because they have to take that step. We aren\u2019t seeking anything from anybody other than the central government. That\u2019s our right\u201d.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Public Works Minister and official spokesman of the J&K government Naeem Akhtar has said that China is on its way to assuming a \u201cmuch bigger role in Kashmir\u201d and the Jaish-e-Mohammad has been veritably \u201cadopted\u201d by Beijing, said a media report on Tuesday. “It\u2019s the \u201cgrowing influence of China\u201d which has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}