Pakistan has urged India to stop human rights violations in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, reverse demographic changes there, and restore the special identity of the territory by rescinding its illegal measures of 5 August 2019 to pave the way for a dialogue aimed at resolving the decades-old Kashmir dispute.
Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Munir Akram, in his opening remarks at a webinar said the onus is on India to create conditions for a dialogue to resolve the Jammu and Kashmir dispute. The webinar was organized by the Pakistan Mission to mark Youm-e-Istehsal – the third anniversary of the Indian siege of IIOJK.
Ambassador Akram said the Kashmir dispute must be resolved based on UN Security Council resolutions that have granted the people of Kashmir the right to self-determination. “The only legal basis for the resolution of the dispute over Jammu and Kashmir is the Security Council’s decision contained in Resolution 47 of 1948 and several subsequent Security Council resolutions, stipulating that the final disposition of the State of Jammu and Kashmir is to be decided by its people through a free and fair plebiscite conducted under UN supervision,” he said.
Pakistan desires peaceful relations with India, but New Delhi was heightening tensions in the region by resorting to state terrorism against the besieged Kashmiri people, the Pakistan envoy said, according to APP. “To avoid this obligation and justify its colonial occupation and oppression, India has sought to portray the Kashmiris’ freedom struggle as ‘terrorism’,” he said, adding that the Kashmiri people were campaigning for their recognized right to self-determination and that cannot be equated with terrorism.
Ambassador Akram denounced India’s arrest and torture of the Kashmiri leadership,
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