ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT/APP): High Commissioner for Pakistan to
Canada Tariq Azim Khan Monday said under the United Nations Security
Council resolutions the people of Jammu and Kashmir have the right
to decide their destiny but it is being denied by India.
Addressing students and academics at McGill University
Montreal, he said the international community should play its due
role to grant them inalienable right to decide for their own future
in accordance with UNSC resolutions, a press release received
here from Montreal said.
He said even the Indian media has recognized that the
indigenous movement for self determination going on in Jammu and
Kashmir is now in the hands of local Kashmiri youth and it will not
be possible for occupational forces to deny them their rights.
“The international community should take notice of the
situation as any conflict between two nuclear armed nations could be
catastrophe for the regional peace,” he said.
He said if plebiscite can be held in Quebec or Scotland to
decide their future, why not in Indian held Kashmir.
The high commissioner gave a detailed background of the Jammu
& Kashmir dispute and said India continues to violate UNSC
resolutions on Kashmir adopted in 1948 which says India will
maintain bare minimum force to maintain law and order in the
occupied territories, whereas Jammu & Kashmir has become a place
where there is highest concentration of military troops anywhere in
the world.
Responding to a question, the high commissioner said
peaceful, strong and stable Afghanistan is in the interest of
Pakistan and that Pakistan is a victim of terrorism itself by losing
80,000 of its civilian and over 7000 of its armed personnel in
fighting terrorism.
Pakistan has suffered over US $ 100 billions in
economic losses due to terrorism, he said.
He said other countries in the region must refrain from
fomenting their evil designs by supporting terrorism to
dislodge recent economic developments in Pakistan. The recent acts
of terrorism in Pakistan have the fingerprints of support of foreign
agencies.
Earlier Consul General of Pakistan, Montreal Muhammad Aamer,
gave a detailed presentation to the university students on China
Pakistan Economic Corridor.
He said CPEC is not the name of a single route or alignment, rather it is a comprehensive package of co-operative initiatives and projects encompassing regional connectivity, information network infrastructure, energy co-operation, industries and industrial parks, agricultural development and poverty alleviation, tourism, financial co-operation.
He added CPEC is a game changer project which will
transform the fate of Pakistan and will help Pakistan modernize with
the infusion of billions of dollars of Foreign Direct Investment and
it will result in thousands of new ventures and millions of jobs in
every part of Pakistan.