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MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan has regretted the silence of the UN Secretary-General António Guterres, as well as the Security Council on the Kashmir issue and said it amounts to avoiding fulfilling their international obligations.
“The Kashmiri people will welcome mediation by five permanent members of the UN Security Council, UN Secretary-General, and some former prime ministers of the UK and Norway for the solution of this the long outstanding issue provided the Kashmiri people are also made part of this exercise,” he asserted. He made these remarks while addressing an international virtual conference on ‘COVID-19 & Lockdown in Kashmir’, hosted and chaired by Fahim Kayani, President Tehreek-e- Kashmir UK. President Masood Khan said that no durable solution to the Kashmir the issue was possible without the meaningful involvement of the Kashmiri people.
The event was participated by over 15 Members of the British Parliament including Mr Andrew Gwynne, MP and Chairman Labour Friends of Kashmir, Mr Steve Bakers, MP, Conservative, Mr Paul Bristow, MP and Vice-Chair All-Party Parliamentary Kashmir Group on Kashmir.
Other participants of the conference were, Kate Hollern, MP (Labour), Sara Britcliffe, MP (Conservative), Alison Thewliss, MP (Scottish National Party), Richard Burgon, MP (Labour), Jonathan Gullis, MP (Conservative), Antony Higginbotham, MP (Conservative), Marco Longhi, MP, Vice-Chair All-Party Parliamentary Group on Kashmir (Conservative), Jess Philips, MP, Tracy Brabin, Member of Parliament, Rachel Hopkins, MP James Daly, Vice-Chair All-Party Parliamentary Group on Kashmir. While Ghulam Muhammad Safi and Altaf Ahmed Bhatt represented the people of Jammu Kashmir in the event. AJK president declared that the Kashmiri people want a diplomatic solution to the issue, the United Nation owes the main role in it. However, he maintained that the United Nations appears to have been sidelined, and it is unable to play its role as per its charter.
Khan said that at present, the worst human rights violations are taking place at the hands of Indian occupation forces in the held territory, but the United Nations is silent over it. “This is not a territorial dispute between Pakistan and India, but the global issue because of human rights violations,” he said.
