UNITED NATIONS: The permanent representative of Pakistan at United Nations (UN), Maleeha Lodhi, has informed the United Nations that it’s decolonisation agenda would remain incomplete without settling the Kashmir dispute on the basis of UN Security Council resolutions that pledged the right to self-determination of Kashmiri people.
“Generation after generation of Kashmiris has only seen broken promises and brutal oppression,” Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi said in a speech to the UN General Assembly’s Special Political and Decolonization (Fourth) Committee.
She reminded the world community that the 15-member council’s promise to hold a plebiscite under UN auspices to allow Kashmiri people to determine their destiny has not been implemented for over six decades.
“This is the most persistent failure of the United Nations,” she said, while participating in a debate on decolonisation issues.
“Today, the Kashmiris’ have risen again in unison against occupation,” she informed delegates from around the world. The ongoing indigenous uprising was a consequence of the denial of their right to self-determination of Kashmiris’ that has been met with Indian brutality, she said.
Maleeha said during the past two-and-a-half months, over 100 innocent Kashmiris’ have been killed, hundreds blinded and thousands injured by Indian bullets and pellets. This is the worst form of state terrorism, a war crime, which India has perpetrated by its illegal occupation of Jammu and Kashmir for decades, she added.
Contrary to Indian claims, the envoy said that Kashmir never was and can never be an integral part of India.
“It is a disputed territory, the final status of which has yet to be determined in accordance with several resolutions of the UN Security Council,” she asserted.
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