The writer is a former Pakistan ambassador to the UN. IN a TV interview, Pakistan’s foreign minister “categorically” denied that Pakistan was going to “freeze” the Kashmir dispute, asserting “we have changed the road that leads to resolution of [the] Kashmir issue and other issues that exist with India”. Foreign Minister Khar has done much to counter the portrayal of Pakistan by the western and Indian media as the ‘epicentre’ of terrorism and nuclear proliferation.…
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EVEN though he was breaking no new ground, the UN envoy on human rights chose New Delhi as the venue to tell India that democracy and special powers for armed forces for tackling popular causes did not go together. Talking to journalists on Friday after visiting India-held Kashmir and other insurgency-hit areas, Christof Heyns, the world body’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial and summary executions, said the Armed Forces Special Powers Act was “hated” and the…