Gilani urges UN to implement its resolutions on Kashmir

Srinagar, January 04 (KMS): Veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani has urged the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon to call an immediate session of the Security Council and pass an additional resolution to press India to hold referendum in disputed Jammu and Kashmir.

Syed Ali Gilani in a letter to the UN Secretary General reminded the World Body of its moral and legal commitment of holding a plebiscite in Kashmir to give the Kashmiris an opportunity to exercise their right to self-determination.

“In view of the resolutions passed by it, the UN is morally and legally responsible for making sure that Kashmiris get their right to self-determination,” he said in a statement. The veteran Hurriyet leader said that Kashmir was a threat to international peace and the dream of a stable and peaceful South Asia could not be realized until the 63-year-old dispute was resolved. “Already India and Pakistan have fought three wars over Kashmir, and role of the UN Secretary General towards resolving the dispute becomes more imperative in view of the nuclear-capability of both the countries. India should not be allowed to put world peace at risk,” he added.

Syed Ali Gilani asked Ban Ki-Moon to take cogniance of India’s reluctance to allow Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, International Red Cross and other international rights bodies to visit Kashmir while dismissing their reports regarding human rights violations committed by Indian troops in the occupied territory. He said that the troops had already killed lacs of Kashmiris and subjected more than ten thousand people to custodial disappearance and they were still continuing to use brute force against peaceful demonstrations.

Meanwhile, a spokesman of the forum patronized by Syed Ali Gilani in a statement said that the veteran Hurriyet leader would preside over a seminar, “UN resolutions and Sacrifices of Oppressed People” at the forum’s Hyderpora office on Wednesday, January 5, to remind the UN of its resolutions passed in favor of Kashmiris’ right to self-determination on the day in 1949. “Gilani would also address a seminar in Jamia Masjid Sopore on Thursday, January 6, in memory of 45 innocent people who were killed by the Indian Border Security Force personnel on that day in 1993,” the spokesman said, adding that complete shutdown would be observed in Sopore on the day.

Source: Kashmir Media Service.
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