Bilawal eager for elections to uproot PTI: WHAT IS HE?

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has categorically stated that India's illegal and unilateral actions of 5 August, 2019 had vitiated the atmosphere and shut the door for dialogue.

He was talking to a 10-member delegation of the Azad Kashmir chapter of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) led by APHC Convener Mehmood Ahmed Saghar in the federal capital on Saturday.

The minister said India would have to go back to the drawing board of August 4, 2019 for any meaningful bilateral engagement.

The meeting with APHC's AJK chapter

took place at a time when the entire pro-freedom leadership in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) remained incarcerated.

The delegation briefed the foreign minister on the situation in the occupied territory with particular reference to the ongoing human rights violations, efforts

for demographic change and attempts at political engineering.

The delegation expressed great appreciation for the Foreign Minister's unequivocal stance on Jammu and Kashmir during his recent visit to India.

Terming them an effort to further consolidate India's control over the territory, the delegation rejected the plans to hold different G-20 meetings in IIOJK, under India's ongoing presidency of the grouping. The foreign minister informed the delegation that his recent...

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