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ISLAMABAD, (APP): The Chairperson of Dukhtaran-e-
Millat (DeM), Aasiya Andrabi has urged the UN General Secretary,
Ban Ki-moon, to impress upon India to hold a plebiscite in
Kashmir.
Aasiya Andrabi in a statement issued in Srinagar criticized
the UN Secretary General for stating that the long-pending Kashmir
dispute must be resolved bilaterally by India and Pakistan, KMS
reported.
“For past few days, Ban Ki-moon has issued few statements on
Kashmir but it is ironic that rather than using his chair and
office to impress upon India to give the right to self-
determination to the people of Kashmir, he is only talking about
the human rights violations and states that India and Pakistan
must settle it bilaterally,” she said.
She said that Moon must understand his responsibility and
should fulfill the promises the World Body had made to the people
of Kashmir. “He must understand that he is not a PM of any country
or a head of any political party. He is heading an organization
which has passed 18 resolutions on Kashmir and this is the
organization which has declared Kashmir as disputed territory,”
she said.
She said that India has crossed all limits of oppression in
Kashmir. “Kashmir has become the territory of blind where
thousands have been blinded by pellets and now the forces were
barging into homes of Kashmiris and killing and maiming them. So
Ban Ki Moon must do his duty as UN chief and must save Kashmiris
from this oppression for once and all,” she added.
She, however, welcomed the statement of Iyad Amin Madani,
Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
who had said that Kashmir was not the internal matter of India and
had urged the international community to help resolve the dispute.