UNITED NATIONS, Feb 19 :Pakistan Tuesday hit back at India for claiming Kashmir to be its \u2018integral part\u201d, saying fabrication and obfuscation cannot change the legal, political and historical reality.
\n\u201cJammu and Kashmir never was, nor is, a so-called \u2018integral part\u2019 of India,\u201d Pakistani delegate Asif Khan told the UN Security Council as its day-long discussion on multilateralism and global governance came to a end.
\nKhan, who is minister at the Pakistan Mission to the UN, was reacting to Indian Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish\u2019s claim that Kashmir \u201chas been, is, and will always be an integral and inalienable part of India.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Indian ambassador made that claim in response to Pakistan\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Senator Mohammad Ishaq, who made a forceful call in the 15-member Council for the resolution of the decades-old dispute, calling it an \u201copen wound\u201d that threatens international peace and security. He also said the Indian occupation forces were indulging in gross abuses of human rights, and called on the Security Council, to ensure the implementation of its own resolutions.
\nIn his countering the DPM\/FM, the Indian envoy also said that he people of Jummu and Kashmir had voted in large numbers last year to choose their government, and went on to call Pakistan the \u201d global epicenter of terrorism\u201d
\nAsif Khan, the Pakistani delegate, set the record straight: \u201cJammu and Kashmir is an internationally recognized disputed territory,\u201d he told the Indian envoy, adding, \u201cYou just need to consult the UN\u2019s official maps to establish this fact.\u201d
\nIndia, he added, was in its forcible occupation of parts of Jammu and Kashmir, in contravention of multiple resolutions of the UNSC resolutions which reaffirm that the final disposition of Jammu and Kashmir will be decided by its people through a UN supervised plebiscite \u2014 through the exercise of the right to self-determination.
\n \u201cThis inalienable right \u2013 brazenly denied by India for over seven decades in gross violation of international law and the resolutions of this body \u2013 is among the most fundamental rights of peoples, an erga omnes right which cannot be rescinded by unilateral actions,\u201d Asif Khan said.
\nKashmir is being held by India through brutal suppression of its people by an occupation army of 900,000 troops, he said, pointing out that since 5 August 2019, India is illegally undertaking demographic engineering to dispossess and disempower the Muslim-majority of the occupied territory.
\n\u201cNeither force nor fraud will succeed in extinguishing the Kashmiris quest for freedom and self-determination.\u201d
\nNo unilateral measures, including any sham elections under foreign occupation, constitute a final disposition of Jammu and Kashmir, the Pakistani delegate said.
\n\u201cRather than misleading the international community and becoming blinded by hubris, India should implement its international obligation to allow the Kashmiris to exercise their right to self-determination in accordance with the UN Security Council resolutions.\u201d
\nRegarding accusations about Pakistan\u2019s involvement in terrorism, Asif Khan said It is most ironic that India, which is committing the worst form of state terrorism, was portraying itself as the victim.
\n\u201cInstead of maligning others for terrorism, India should sincerely reflect on its own campaign of orchestrating targeted assassinations, subversion and terrorism in foreign countries, \u201d he said, adding that in fact India supports and finances terrorism against Pakistan by using its proxies such as Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Majeed Brigade and Baloch Liberation Army (BLA).
\n\u201cFor a country that has been called out for running a global terrorism syndicate, No Low is too Low for India. The franchise of Indian State-sponsored terrorism has gone from regional to global \u2013 reaching North American shores,\u201d Asif Khan added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 19 :Pakistan Tuesday hit back at India for claiming Kashmir to be its \u2018integral part\u201d, saying fabrication and obfuscation cannot change the legal, political and historical reality. \u201cJammu and Kashmir never was, nor is, a so-called \u2018integral part\u2019 of India,\u201d Pakistani delegate […]<\/p>\n
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