NEW YORK: Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal said that durable peace between Pakistan and India would continue to be elusive unless the dispute over Jammu and Kashmir was resolved in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
Addressing a press conference here at the Untied Nations, the minister expressed grave concern over the plight of the people under foreign occupation in Jammu and Kashmir, who have been suffering brutal oppression, extra judicial killings, human rights violations, extended curfews, lockdowns, arbitrary detention, and illegal demographic displacement.
He said after the illegal and unilateral measures August 5, 2019 to snatch Jammu and Kashmir’s identity, the Indian authorities have been mounting massive campaign of repression against its people.
He said, the measures was an attempt to change demography of the Muslim majority state to transform it into a Hindu majority territory by eliminating indigenous Muslim population and settling down Hindus from across India in the area. –Agencies
