In China, Yechury takes on Bilawal over Kashmir issue

Speaking to The Indian Express from Beijing, Sitaram Yechury confirmed his reply to Bilawal’s remarks.

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CPM chief Sitaram Yechury

With Pakistan People’s Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari raising China’s “enlightened role” in developing Kashmir at a conference in Beijing on Thursday, CPM chief Sitaram Yechury took on the Bhutto-Zardari scion and counselled him to refrain from raising Kashmir in an international forum.

Yechury is in Beijing to attend the Asian Political Parties special conference on Silk Road, which is also being attended by delegation from the BJP and Congress. The conference is organised by the Communist Party of China.
Bilawal had reportedly said that China has played an “enlightened role” in developing “our Kashmir”.

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Exercising his right to reply, Yechury told the gathering, “An unfortunate reference has been made to the Kashmir dispute here by the Pakistani delegation (Mr Bilawal Bhutto). Kashmir is a bilateral issue to be resolved between India and Pakistan, as universally recognised and accepted. It is best to leave this issue to be resolved between India and Pakistan. Raising it internationally will only complicate matters rather than help resolving them.”

Speaking to The Indian Express from Beijing, Yechury confirmed his reply to Bilawal’s remarks.

About the Silk Road initiative, Yechury said it is expected to play a role in strengthening economic cooperation and also contribute to the evolution of modern syncretic culture.

“The Silk Road initiative, we hope, will once again play its historical role of not only strengthening economic cooperation through trade, but also contribute for the evolution of modern syncretic culture,” he said.

Shubhajit Roy

Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor at The Indian Express, has been a journalist for more than 25 years now. Roy joined The Indian Express in October 2003 and has been reporting on foreign affairs for more than 17 years now. Based in Delhi, he has also led the National government and political bureau at The Indian Express in Delhi — a team of reporters who cover the national government and politics for the newspaper. He has got the Ramnath Goenka Journalism award for Excellence in Journalism ‘2016. He got this award for his coverage of the Holey Bakery attack in Dhaka and its aftermath. He also got the IIMCAA Award for the Journalist of the Year, 2022, (Jury’s special mention) for his coverage of the fall of Kabul in August 2021 — he was one of the few Indian journalists in Kabul and the only mainstream newspaper to have covered the Taliban’s capture of power in mid-August, 2021. ... Read More

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