UNITED NATION 27 May (Online): Pakistan and Indian diplomats engaged on Wednesday into verbal duel over Kashmir, as Indian court ordered life jail to Kashmiri Leader, Chairmen Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Yasin Malik.<\/p>\n
Munir Akram, Pakistan\u2019s permanent representative castigated New Delhi for its atrocities and oppression over Indian Occupied Kashmir, to draw UN attention over life imprisonment to Yasin Malik for fake charges of terrorism.<\/p>\n
Reacting to the Pakistani envoy\u2019s statement, Indian representative Vidisha Maitra claimed that Jammu and Kashmir was an integral part of India. <\/p>\n
However, Pakistani representative Qasim Aziz Butt rejected India\u2019s oft-repeated claim, saying Kashmir was a disputed territory.<\/p>\n
Butt referred to the UN resolution 47 of 1948, resolution 91 of 1951and 122 of 1957, besides other resolutions of the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan, notably those of August 1948 and January 1949.<\/p>\n
India, he said, was bound to comply with those resolutions in line with Article 25 of the Charter of the United Nations. \u201cOnly an occupier will oppose the implementation of Security Council resolutions that promise self-determination to the people of the disputed Jammu and Kashmir,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Butt accused India of being one of the world\u2019s largest purveyors of state terrorism, notably against each of its neighbours, including Pakistan. \u201cAt home, state-directed terrorism is being unleashed against all minorities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn today\u2019s incredibly intolerant and fading India, 200 million Muslim minority faces frequent lynching by \u2018cow vigilantes\u2019; pogroms by RSS [Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh] thugs, with official complicity; discriminatory citizenship laws to expel Muslims; and a concerted campaign to destroy mosques and the rich Muslim heritage of India,\u201d Butt said.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Ambassador Akram drew the 15-member UN Security Council\u2019s attention to the life sentence handed down to Malik, calling it the \u201clatest illustration of Indian oppression\u201d in IIOJK. \u201cLike other colonialists, India has sought to portray the Kashmiri freedom struggle as terrorism,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe conviction and sentencing today by an Indian kangaroo court of the Kashmiri leader, Yasin Malik, is the latest illustration of Indian oppression,\u201d he said. He cited Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif\u2019s statement that \u201cIndia can imprison Yasin Malik but it can never imprison the idea of freedom he symbolizes\u201d.<\/p>\n
Speaking in a debate on \u2018Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict\u2019, Akram posed the question as how the civilians could be protected when the suppression of civilians was the very object of a military\u2019s operations.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the case when foreign occupation forces resort to the forcible denial of the right of peoples to self-determination and seek to perpetuate their illegal occupation,\u201d he said, adding that the objective of the 900,000 Indian troops in IIOJK was to suppress the Kashmiri people\u2019s demand for freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UNITED NATION 27 May (Online): Pakistan and Indian diplomats engaged on Wednesday into verbal duel over Kashmir, as Indian court ordered life jail to Kashmiri Leader, Chairmen Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Yasin Malik. Munir Akram, Pakistan\u2019s permanent representative castigated New Delhi for its […]<\/p>\n
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