‘Narrow -minded politics’: India Steak Sate Us Lawmaker Ilhan Omar who visited Pok
Somali -born US parliament members were on a visit four days to Pakistan, where he had met Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the opposition leader Imran Khan. He holds public and official interactions when visiting Loc in Pok to assess the land situation, according to Pakistan’s media report.
India on Thursday criticized us our congress visit Ilhan Omar to Pakistan occupied by Kashmir (Pok) as “intelligence” and accused him of violating the country’s sovereignty by traveling to the area occupied by the illegal Pakistan.
Somali -born US parliament members were on a visit four days to Pakistan, where he had met Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the opposition leader Imran Khan. He holds public and official interactions when visiting the Control Path (LOC) in POK on Thursday to assess the land situation, according to reports in the Pakistani media.
Asked about Omar’s journey to Pok at an ordinary weekly media briefing, a spokesman for the Ministry of External Affairs Arinindam Bagchi said, “We have noted that US representatives Ilhan Omar has visited a part of the Indian Union region from Jammu and Kashmir which is currently occupied by Pakistan illegally. “
He added, “If a politician like that wants to practice his narrow -thinking politics at home, it might be his business. But violating our territorial integrity and sovereignty in the pursuit of making it ours. This visit was condemned.”
In 2018, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib became the first Muslim woman chosen to the US Congress. Omar’s visit to Pakistan was reported to have been regulated in his personal capacity as a member of the congress.
Omar visited Pok Capital Muzaffarabad, where he said the US Foreign Affairs Committee had held a hearing about reports on human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir and also discussed anti-Muslim rhetoric in India.
During his meeting with Omar on Wednesday, Pakistan Premier Sharif highlighted “serious human rights situations” in Kashmir and “emphasized the importance of the peaceful resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute, allowing the region to realize its economic potential and promote social progress and promote”, According to Tweet from the Prime Minister’s office.
Sharif also said “the peaceful and stable South Asia region can focus on its growth and development”, and call for global efforts together to deal with Islamophobia.
Ilhan Omar was the first American MPs who traveled to Pakistan after the Imran Khan government. Besides Sharif, he also met the Minister of State for Hina Rabbani Khar and Speaker National Council of the National Assembly Pervez Ashraf.
Omar’s meeting with former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday sparked controversy when the cricket-turn-political had accused the US behind the “foreign conspiracy” to bring down its government. Social media users reminded Khan from his criticism of political leaders who recently met with US officials and Minister of Home Affairs Rana Sanaullah asking whether his meeting with Omar was “conspiracy or disturbance”.
Earlier this month, Omar, a Democrat, asked why Joe Biden’s government was reluctant to criticize the Indian government about human rights issues. In the past, Omar accused India in pursuing “anti-Muslim” policies.
