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ISLAMABAD, (APP): Pakistan on Saturday categorically
made it clear at the United Nations that Occupied Jammu and Kashmir
was neither an internal matter nor integral part of India but an
internationally recognized dispute by the United Nation’s Security
Council.
Exercising his right to reply in response to comments made by
the Indian delegate during the ongoing 31st Session of the Human
Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva, Pakistan’s Deputy Permanent
Representative to United Nations Office, Aamar Aftab Qureshi said
that for durable peace, Kashmir dispute needed to be resolved, said
a press release received here.
He said history, legal and political realities could not be
changed by fabrication, lies and false claims over occupied
territories.
The most egregious form of state terrorism by India was being
perpetrated in Jammu and Kashmir and independent human rights
organizations had confirmed the existence of over 6,000 unnamed mass
graves in Indian Occupied Kashmir, he said.
The Deputy Representative of Pakistan emphasized that
Kashmiris were terrorists to the Indian authorities as Nelson
Mandela was to the apartheid regime. Madiba’s chains were broken
because of the truth he espoused as the chains of the Kashmiri
people will break one day.
Earlier on Friday, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the
United Nations in Geneva, Ambassador Tehmina Janjua in her statement
at the Council had forcefully raised the issue of right to self-
determination for the people of Jammu and Kashmir saying it was the
most fundamental right.
She reiterated Pakistan’s principled position, calling for the
resolution of the Kashmir dispute, in accordance with the UNSC
resolutions as well as aspirations of the people of Jammu and
Kashmir.
The Ambassador said that the Jammu and Kashmir dispute was one
of the oldest, outstanding items on the United Nations Security
Council agenda and it needed to be settled urgently.