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Pakistan to Take Up Kashmir Issue With UNGA President

The newly-elected President of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) will arrive in Pakistan on Monday as the Imran Khan-led government in Pakistan aims to take up the Kashmir issue.

The Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that he will be having a one-on-one meeting with UNGA President Volhan Bozkir, in which, he will brief the latter about the situation in Kashmir and present Pakistan’s stance on the matter.

He had congratulated Turkey’s Bozkir on his election on June 21.

“On behalf of the people and government of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, I would like to extend my warm felicitation on your unanimous election by all member states as the President of the historic 75th Session of the UN General Assembly,” Qureshi had said in a letter.

Commenting about his meeting with the UNGA President, Qureshi said that his prime focus would stay on what he called “atrocities committed by the Indian armed forces in the Jammu Kashmir”, Bozkir is the first Turkish national to head the UNGA.

“The expulsion by Iran of India from Chabahar project is also because of its wrong policies and this was due to its Hindutva mindset,” he said.

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