UNITED NATIONS, Oct 16 : Pakistan has rejected India\u2019s claim that Jammu and Kashmir was its \u201cintegral part\u201d of India, and sought a UN-led plebiscite to determine the will of the Kashmiri people, as demanded by UN Security Council resolutions.<\/p>\n
\u201cJammu and Kashmir is not, never has been, and will never be an \u2018integral\u2019 part of India,\u201d Pakistani delegate Ansar Shah told the General Assembly\u2019s Special Political and Decolonization (Fourth) Committee on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis disputed status of Kashmir is acknowledged by the UN and the international community,\u201d Shah, a first secretary at the Pakistani Mission to the UN, said in a response to a an accusation by an Indian delegate that Pakistan was misinterpreting the principle of self-determination which, he said, does not justify undermining a member state\u2019s territorial integrity.<\/p>\n
The Indian delegate, Eldos Mathew Punnoose, a counsellor at India\u2019s Mission to the UN, was reacting to a sharp statement by Pakistan UN Ambassador Munir Akram who described the Indian occupation of Jammu and Kashmir as the \u201cworst manifestation of modern-day colonialism,\u201d and called on the U.N. to push for a peaceful settlement of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the UNSC resolutions and Kashmiri people\u2019s wishes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIndia is under a legally binding obligation under Article 25 of the UN Charter to implement the resolutions of the Security Council and enable the people of Jammu and Kashmir to exercise their right to self-determination,\u201d the Pakistani delegate said, pointing out that Kashmir ie being held by brute force, with all pro-freedom Hurriyat Leaders remaining incarcerated and many having died in custody under suspicious circumstances.<\/p>\n
Far from seeking a peaceful solution to the dispute, Ansar Shah pointed out that India has resorted to belligerence against Pakistan \u2013 threatening to \u201ctake over\u201d liberated Azad Jammu and Kashmir, reminding New Delhi that Islamabad will respond decisively to any Indian aggression.
\nThe Pakistan delegate went on to call India the \u201cmother\u201d of terrorism in South Asia, having resorted to terrorism against all its neighbours as a tool of its hegemonic policies.
\n\u201cIndia\u2019s campaign of targeted terrorist assassinations in third countries is now common knowledge,\u201d he said, adding, its agents have been responsible for at least 22 targeted assassinations in Pakistan.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Indian terrorist franchise has now gone global \u2013 with at least one assassination carried out in Canada and second attempted in the United States,\u201d Shah said.
\nIn this regard, the Pakistani delegate referred to the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s threat that his \u201cNew India comes in your home to kill you!\u201d, saying , \u201cJust yesterday, Canada expelled India\u2019s top diplomats as \u2018persons of interest\u2019 in such criminal activities.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe submit: this New India is a dangerous entity. Unless Hindutva fascism is opposed; unless India\u2019s sense of impunity is ended; unless India\u2019s Muslims, Christians and other minorities are protected from genocide; unless the Kashmiri people are freed from the yoke of Indian colonialism, the threat of wider violence and conflict spread by this state- sponsor of terrorism will remain a clear and present danger,\u201d the Pakistani delegate added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 16 : Pakistan has rejected India\u2019s claim that Jammu and Kashmir was its \u201cintegral part\u201d of India, and sought a UN-led plebiscite to determine the will of the Kashmiri people, as demanded by UN Security Council resolutions. \u201cJammu and Kashmir is not, […]<\/p>\n
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