ISLAMABAD (92 News) – Foreign (FM) Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said for over seven decades, human dignity of Kashmiris is being violated on a daily basis in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IoK).
In his message on Right to Self-determination Day of Kashmiris, FM Qureshi reaffirmed
Pakistan’s political, diplomatic and moral support to the valiant Kashmiri people in their just struggle for human dignity and their inalienable right to self-determination in accordance with UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions.
Kashmiris around world observing 71st anniversary of UN’s commitment
He also said that today Kashmiris around the world are observing the 71st anniversary of the UN’s commitment that the Jammu and Kashmir dispute would be decided through the democratic method of a free and impartial plebiscite under the UN auspices.
“Through this resolution, the UN affirmed its support for the realization of the inalienable right to self-determination of Kashmiris, a right from which all other fundamental freedoms and basic human rights flow,” he said.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi regretted that this right has not yet been realized because of unabated repression and state terrorism by India in IoK. He said for over seven decades, human dignity of Kashmiris is being violated on a daily basis in IoK.
FM Qureshi said the UN, especially the UNSC, bear the responsibility to ensure fulfilment of the promise of granting the right to self-determination to the Kashmiris. He said India's illegal and unilateral actions of 5 August this year aimed at altering the disputed status of Occupied Kashmir and bringing about demographic change to undermine the right to self-determination of Kashmiris have been widely rejected.
India to allow UN Fact Finding Mission to IoK
The foreign minister said each additional second on the curfew clock is a burden on the world's collective conscience. He urged the international community to act in support of the fundamental freedoms and basic human rights of Kashmiris and urge India to allow the UN Fact Finding Mission to Occupied Kashmir to ascertain the reports of grave human rights violations there.
India must allow UN Military Observer Group in India, Pakistan
He said India must allow
United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan unhindered access to carry out its duties in Occupied Kashmir. The Minister added that if India had nothing to hide, it must allow international media and civil society to visit and report on the human rights situation in Occupied Kashmir.
