Noting that since 1946, 80 former colonies have gained independence, Ambassador Munir Akram informed the UN Common Meeting’s Particular Political and Decolonization (Fourth) Committee that there are nonetheless peoples who’re denied the precise to self-determination, “most prominently the individuals of occupied Jammu & Kashmir and Palestine.”
The Ambassador referred to as on the United Nations (UN) to push for a peaceable settlement of the lingering Kashmir dispute in accordance with the Safety Council resolutions and Kashmiri individuals’s needs.
The fitting of self-determination of the Kashmiri individuals, the Pakistani envoy stated, was explicitly acknowledged in UNSC decision 47 and a number of other subsequent resolutions, which prescribed that the ultimate disposition of the State of Jammu & Kashmir needs to be determined by its individuals by way of a free and honest plebiscite held underneath UN auspices.
Each India and Pakistan accepted these resolutions, he stated, including that underneath Article 25 of the UN Constitution, each events are obliged to implement these resolutions.
Ambassador Akram additionally stated that sturdy peace within the Center East can solely be achieved by way of the two-state resolution and establishing a viable, unbiased and contiguous State of Palestine, with the pre-1967 borders and Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.
On Kashmir, the Pakistani envoy stated that for 75 years, by way of drive and fraud, India has prevented the implementation of UN resolutions, and since 1989, it’s “brutal” marketing campaign of repression killed 100,000 Kashmiris.
Since 5 August 2019, he stated, India has taken “unilateral and unlawful steps” to annex occupied Kashmir in what its leaders have termed as a “Remaining Resolution”.
“Decision 122 (1957) of the Safety Council offers that unilateral measures ‘to find out the long run form and affiliation of all the state or any half thereof, wouldn’t represent a disposition of the state’”, Ambassador Akram stated, including that consequently all unilateral actions taken by India on and after 5 August 2019 are usually not solely unlawful, however, ipso facto, null and void.”
“Kashmir in the present day is essentially the most densely occupied place on the earth, with greater than 900,000 Indian occupation troops deployed there who’ve perpetrated a vicious marketing campaign of extrajudicial killings in pretend encounters and so-called ‘cordon and search’ operations; abduction and enforced disappearances of 13,000 younger Kashmiri boys; collective punishments, destroying and burning whole villages and concrete neighbourhoods,” he stated.
“In a basic settler-colonial venture, India is in search of to transform occupied Kashmir from a Muslim-majority state to a Hindu-majority territory,” the Pakistani envoy stated, stating that over 3.4 million pretend domicile certificates have been issued to Hindus from throughout India.
“The land and properties of Kashmiris are additionally being confiscated for army and official use,” he informed the committee.
India’s brutal marketing campaign, he stated, is turbo-charged by the ideology of ‘Hindutva’, which asserts the spiritual and ethnic supremacy of Hindus and hate in opposition to Muslims. “This has led the group – Genocide Watch – to warn of the opportunity of genocide in occupied Jammu and Kashmir and, certainly, in opposition to Muslims inside India itself.
Underscoring that the decision of the Jammu & Kashmir dispute is crucial to realize sturdy peace in South Asia, Ambassador Akram stated the onus is on India to create circumstances for a dialogue in the direction of its settlement.
To that finish, he stated, India should cease its human rights violations in occupied Jammu and Kashmir; halt and reverse the method of demographic change there; and rescind the unlawful and unilateral measures imposed on and after 5 August 2019.
“The United Nations and all its Member States are sure by the Constitution to advertise a peaceable settlement of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute in accordance with the UN Safety Council resolutions and the desires of the Kashmiri individuals,” the Pakistani envoy stated in conclusion.