-Qureshi writes to UNSC on IOK situation
DM Monitoring
ISLAMABAD: Permanent Representative to the United Nations Munir Akram has presented Pakistan’s dossier containing irrefutable evidence of India’s sponsorship of terrorism to the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York.
Munir Akram called on UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York where he presented him Pakistan’s dossier containing evidence of India’s sponsorship of terrorism in the country.
During the meeting that took place at the UN Headquarters in New York, Akram briefed the UN secretary-general about the Indian involvement in terrorist activities in Pakistan, reported Radio Pakistan on Wednesday.
He apprised the UN chief that Indian is involved in orchestrating terrorist attacks in Pakistan and demanded him to take note of this.
Later, addressing a virtual news conference, Munir Akram said India is involved in sponsoring terrorism in Pakistan and in the region and wants to paralyse Pakistan’s economy.
He said the UN Security Council’s team is also investigating Indian terrorism in Pakistan, which is an open violation of United Nation Charter and international laws. Akram said Pakistan’s dossier of Indian terrorism will also be handed over to the member countries of UN Security Council.
He said India is continuously involved in ceasefire violations along the Line of Control (LoC) and Pakistan reserves the right to defend itself against any kind of Indian aggression.
The ambassador said Indian is also consistently involved in sabotaging the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which has a pivotal role in Pakistan’s development. He expressed hopes that the international community will stop India from sponsoring terrorism in Pakistan.
Meanwhile, the Foreign Office (FO) said in a statement Wednesday that Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has written a letter to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) president and secretary-general for updating them on the grave situation in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
It highlighted the gross and systematic violations of human rights taking place
in the occupied valley along with the threat posed to peace and security by India.
“It focuses, in particular, on the illegal demographic changes being undertaken in the occupied territory by India, in violation of UN Security Council resolutions, the UN Charter and international law including the 4th Geneva Convention.”
In the letter, Qureshi appraised UNSC of India’s implementation of an elaborate strategy of military occupation, land confiscation, the influx of non-Kashmiris, and creation of alien settlements in IIOJK. “As a result of the Indian agenda to convert the Muslim majority of IIOJK into a minority, the indigenous Kashmiris are losing their political and cultural identity, their rightful demographic majority, and ownership of their properties in their own homeland.”
The letter also underscores the indiscriminate and unprovoked ceasefire violations by India across the Line of Control (LoC) and the Working Boundary (WB), including the deliberate targeting of civilian populated areas. Over 2,700 ceasefire violations committed by India this year that resulted in the death of 25 innocent people and serious injuries to more than 200 civilians.
The foreign minister has called on the UN Security Council to exercise its direct responsibility to prevent India from perpetrating its criminal colonial project to change the demographic structure of the disputed territory and to secure the implementation of its own resolutions which recognize the Kashmiris’ legitimate right to self-determination through a free and impartial plebiscite under UN auspices.
Qureshi’s letter is part of Pakistan’s consistent efforts to keep the UN Security Council and the secretary-general regularly informed of the serious situation in IIOJK, and to demand resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute in accordance with the council’s resolutions and the wishes of the Kashmiri people.
