Krishna slams Pakistan for raking up Kashmir at UN

New York : India has lambasted Pakistan for making unsolicited remarks in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on the controversial Kashmir issue.

Reacting to the statement of Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi at the UNGA, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna on Tuesday said he was “genuinely disappointed over the unacceptable reference” made by his Pakistani counterpart at his address at the UNGA.

“Pakistan is a country that has enormous internal challenges confronting it, such unsolicited remarks cannot divert attention from the internal problems they are having,” Krishna said, according to media reports here.

Pakistan on Tuesday appealed to the international community at the United Nations to “persuade India to end its repression in Kashmir”.

Urging an end to the dispute in keeping with UN resolutions, Qureshi said: ?The human rights of the Kashmiri people must be respected, and their voices heard to create an enabling environment for a peaceful solution of the longstanding Jammu and Kashmir dispute.”