"I will go to the border for peace. I will call all the top people, the sportspeople and everyone. I will go there and tell everyone about peace. I will go with a peace flag. If these things did not stop then I will go border with anyone who will join me and after going there I will tell people that we want peace and we are with Kashmiri people," Miandad said in a video he posted on his Twitter handle.
Former Pakistan cricketer Javed Miandad said that he wants peace to be restored between India and Pakistan, adding that he will visit Line of Control (LOC) with other sportspersons to propagate peace at the border.
"I will go to the border for peace. I will call all the top people, the sportspeople and everyone. I will go there and tell everyone about peace. I will go with a peace flag. If these things did not stop then I will go border with anyone who will join me and after going there I will tell people that we want peace and we are with Kashmiri people," Miandad said in a video he posted on his Twitter handle.
I’m with other legends of sports to be visiting Line of Control( LOC), to make my voice heard, bring greater awareness to the terrible situation in Kashmir and call for peace @UN charter. pic.twitter.com/zuRER8W2ll
— Javed Miandad (@ItsJavedMiandad) August 25, 2019
Miandad also urged that India and Pakistan should find a peaceful solution.
Incidentally, Miandad’s son is married is 1993 Mumbai blasts mastermind and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim who’s India’s most known fugitive.
"I will take all the people from sports fraternity and all the people from all over the world, and I will go to the border and hoist a flag for peace. All the soldiers there will see how peaceful we are. I want India and Pakistan to end everything peaceful," he said.
Miandad further added that he wants everyone is allowed to exercise their rights.
"I want everyone to get their right. They are fighting for their rights for 40 years. If you treat people unfairly, more instances will come up. Everyone needs to think about Kashmir and find a solution," Miandad said.
On August 5, Union government abrogated Article 370 and bifurcated the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories -- Jammu and Kashmir with legislative assembly and Ladakh without an assembly.
1. No third-party mediation in Kashmir: Modi
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With US President Donald Trump by his side, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday ruled out any third-party mediation on the Kashmir matter, saying it's a bilateral issue with Pakistan and that the two countries can resolve all issues.
Trump also appeared to agree with him when he said the two countries "will do something good."
"All issues between India and Pakistan are bilateral. We do not want to bother any other country for these issues. And I believe that India and Pakistan, which were one nation before 1947, we will resolve all issues and can find solutions to it," Modi told the media ahead of his talks with Trump on the sidelines of the G-7 summit.
The two leaders had 40-minute meeting after their remarks to the media and it was principally focused on the issues of trade and energy.
The two leaders agreed that preferably before the Prime Minister's visit to Washington next month, there will be an interaction between the trade ministers during which they will discuss the whole range of trade issues.
Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale told the media later that the two leaders had a "very warm meeting, a very positive meeting".
2. Third meeting between Trump and MOdi
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He said it was the third meeting or conversation between the two leaders in the past 100 days.
In his remarks ahead of the meeting, Modi said there are many bilateral issues between India and Pakistan.
"And after Imran Khan became the Prime Minister of Pakistan, I called him up to congratulate him and told him that Pakistan and India need to fight together many issues like diseases, illiteracy, poverty and let us work together for the welfare of our country. We keep talking about the various bilateral issues between each other," Modi said watched by Trump and the officials of the two delegations.
On his part, Trump, who said he spoke to Modi last night, said the Prime Minister feels he has control over the issue and hoped the two countries would "do something very good."
"The Prime Minister feels he has control over the issue. They speak with Pakistan and I am sure they will do something very good," said Trump, who had on three recent occasions offered to mediate on the Kashmir issue between India and Pakistan.
India had rebuffed claims that Trump had discussed his mediation offer with Modi and had made it clear that Kashmir was a bilateral issue.
The US President also congratulated Modi over his election victory, saying the "Prime Minister is a man who is loved and respected in his country".
3. Meeting my friend Trump: Modi
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Trump said that the two sides had some great discussions last night, including trade, military and various things of mutual interest.
Meanwhile, expressing gratitude to Trump, Modi said, "Today I am meeting my friend and the President of world's oldest democracy. This meeting is very important to me. We have been meeting very frequently on many occasions."
Addressing the issue of ongoing trade negotiations between the two countries, the Prime Minister said, "India and the US have been continuously negotiating over the issue in recent days and we appreciate and welcome their suggestions on the issue."
Answering queries from media persons later, Gokhale said there was no discussion on Kashmir during the meeting between two leaders on Monday.
Modi spoke of the importance of energy imports from the United States and noted that US dollars 4 billion worth of imports were already in the pipeline and were expected to go up.
"As you know the Prime Minister will be visiting the United States next month and in that context, he is going to have a round table with the top CEOs of the energy companies in Houston. The objective there is two-fold - to see how we can import more energy from the United States and how Indian companies can invest in the energy sector in the United States.
"This was welcomed by President Trump. In fact, he spoke very warmly of the fact that India had become a major importer of energy," Gokhale said.
He also indicated that he was willing to send top administration officials down to Houston for this purpose in an effort to ensure that the bilateral energy relationship progresses.
Gokhale said that there was also some discussions on the trade issues.
Referring to the meeting between two leaders in Osaka in Japan on the sidelines of G20 summit, the Prime Minister had clearly conveyed that with elections behind him, "we were now in a forward-looking position on trade issues and had offered to send our Commerce and Energy Minister Piyush Goyal to Washington."
