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Sharif vows to provide medical aid to those injured in Kashmir
August 06, 2016
In yet another bid to highlight the Kashmir issue, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif vowed to provide medical help to those injured in violence there and called on the international community to ask India to provide access for treatment of victims. 

Two days after Home Minister Rajnath Singh at the SAARC meeting is Islamabad asked countries to stop glorifying terrorists as martyrs, Sharif described the Kashmir situation as an "ongoing humanitarian crisis". 

"Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has called upon the international community to immediately help arrange medical treatment for the victims" in Kashmir, especially for treatment of eye injuries resulting from use of pellet guns by the Indian forces, a Pakistan Foreign Office statement said. 

"The PM conveyed Pakistan's unequivocal support in arranging best available medical facilities to these injured people, anywhere in the world," it said.
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