United Nations: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan’s former Foreign Minister, has openly admitted that Pakistan continues to struggle in raising the Kashmir issue at global platforms, especially the United Nations.
At a press conference held at the UN headquarters in New York this week, Bilawal said, “As far as the hurdles we face within the UN and in general, as far as the Kashmir cause is concerned, that still exists.”
Bhutto is leading a parliamentary delegation to the United States, part of a government-driven effort to promote Pakistan’s viewpoint on rising regional tensions. This includes responding to India’s Operation Sindoor, launched after the Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 people.
While speaking with UN officials and diplomats, Bilawal shared that there was “receptiveness” when discussing issues like terrorism and water conflicts.
After landing in New York early this week, Bilawal’s team met with several senior UN leaders — including General Assembly President Philemon Yang, Secretary-General António Guterres, and Security Council President Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett.
Intelligence cooperation with India
Bilawal also said that Pakistan was ready to "cooperate" with India to combat terrorism, further seeking a "dispute resolution mechanism" between the two nations. Asking for a combined effort between the intelligence agencies of the two nations - RAW and ISI - Bhutto warned that continued conflict only empowered non-state actors.
"Pakistan would still like to cooperate with India to combat terrorism. We can't leave the fate of 1.5 billion, 1.7 billion people in the hands of non-state actors and terrorists. For them to decide, at a whim, that (when these) two nuclear-armed powers will go to war," Bhutto said, speaking at a UN briefing in New York.
India hit 8 more targets in strikes: PakistanPakistan has admitted it suffered more damage than it earlier acknowledged, during India’s ‘Operation Sindoor’ on the intervening night of May 6 and 7. According to a confidential Pakistani dossier on its internal military Operation ‘Bunyan un Marsoos’, at least eight more of its locations suffered damage in the Indian strikes. A map in the dossier shows Indian strikes in Pakistan damaged structures in Peshawar, Jhang, Hyderabad in Sindh, Gujrat in Punjab, Gujranwala, Bhawalnagar, Attock, and Chor, on the intervening night of May 9 and 10. The mentioned eight locations were not mentioned by the Indian Armed Forces during the press briefings held after the May 7 counteroffensive. |
