KARACHI – Central Vice President of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Fahmida Kausar Jamali has said despite being on the agenda of the Security Council for 73 years, no progress has been made to implement UNSC resolutions on Kashmir that recognized the right to self-determination of the Kashmiris and called for the holding of plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir.
United Nations, which was established after World War II to resolve world conflicts, has miserably failed to settle the Kashmir dispute despite the passing of over seven decades, as 694 days of the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35-A had gone.
She said the Indian occupation forces have made 12,000 women widows by killing their husbands; and more than 11,000 women of all ages have been molested by the occupation forces, as an act of vengeance, to terrorize the entire Kashmiri population.
India’s grave human rights violations in the occupied Kashmir and the accompanying Pakistan-India tensions continued to pose an ever present threat to international peace and security, and urged the Security Council to implement its own resolutions to resolve the decades-old dispute.
The Kashmir dispute can be durably resolved through implementation of these Security Council resolutions.
Unfortunately, “India persists in its policy of repression in occupied Jammu and Kashmir and in attempts to change its demography as the means to foreclose the exercise of the Kashmiris’ right to self-determination – a fundamental right promised to them by the resolutions of the Security Council.”
Fahmida further stated “any dispute or conflict may affect the entire world. Failure to resolve Kashmir dispute is a time bomb ticking for the region, the recent border conflict between China and India is a good example.
With Pakistan, China and India as parties of Kashmir dispute, there would always be a possibility of a new conflict as the three countries are nuclear states. Hence, Kashmir is a nuclear flash point.
