Kashmir is a "money making machine" for the Pakistani Army which wants to maintain status quo in the Valley, a prominent activist from Gilgit Baltistan has said and quipped that "a thief" in Gilgit cannot be a friend in Jammu and Kashmir.


"Pakistan has proxies in Indian Kashmir with explosives and other things," alleged Senge Sering, the Director of the Gilgit-Baltistan National Congress, said.


"Every time the money dries, you show up with blackmail, Russia talk, China talk. I request US to get out of this vicious cycle. Pakistan is not good for any country and it has not done good for the United States," he said.


"You (Pakistan) occupies one third of Kashmir. An occupier cannot be a friend of Kashmir on the other side. You have been exploiting resources in Gilgit Baltistan, without paying royalty or compensation. I call you a thief in Gilgit Baltistan. A thief in Gilgit Baltistan cannot be a fried in Jammu and Kashmir," he alleged.


Kashmir, he alleged, is a "money making machine" for the Pakistani Army, which wants to maintain a status quo in Kashmir. Pakistan, which calls for implementation of the UN Security Council resolution of a plebiscite, is not fulfilling its first perquisite, which is that Pakistan should vacate the area and hand it over to India.


"The double talk that you have been doing in Afghanistan, Kashmir and the US needs to be exposed," Sering alleged. Such remarks from Sering and several other Pakistani expats came during an interaction of two Special Envoy of Prime Minister on Kashmir -- Mushahid Hussain Syed and Shazra Mansab '" at an event hosted by the Atlantic Council, a top American think-tank.