India only a military occupier in Kashmir, Pakistan tells UNGA

NEW YORK: Pakistan has reiterated its position on Jammu and Kashmir at the ongoing UN General Assembly session, declaring that Jammu and Kashmir is not a part of India, nor will it ever be.

Exercising Pakistan’s right of reply to the statement by the representative of India at the UN General Assembly session, Pakistan’s representative Zulqarnain Chheena said India has no claim to Jammu and Kashmir than that of a military occupier.

“India is compelled to use naked force to impose its occupation on an unwilling and oppressed people,” he maintained. The representative said the state of Jammu and Kashmir is a disputed territory.

He said as decreed by the Security Council, the final disposition of the state will be made in accordance with the will of the people expressed through the democratic method of a free and impartial plebiscite conducted under the auspices of the United Nations.

He said the Kashmiri struggle for self-determination seeks to realize the implementation of the resolutions of the Security Council in exercise of their inalienable right to self-determination.

Chheena said the Kashmiris have a legitimate right to resist Indian occupation by all means at their disposal. He said Kashmir will be free one day. “This is not only a lesson of history; it is also an imperative of justice.”

He said the Kashmiris are not alone in their just struggle. The people of Pakistan, people of the Islamic world, indeed, all freedom-loving people, are with the Kashmiris, he added.

Pakistan’s representative said the Indian diatribe was another shameful attempt to deflect attention from the real issues. He said India cannot escape accountability for its crimes in occupied Jammu and Kashmir and against its own Muslims and other minorities.

He said India is also actively involved in orchestrating, financing and providing logistical support to terrorist organizations, like TTP and Jamaat-ul-Ahrar to target Pakistan from across our borders.

Commander Kulbhushan Yadav, an Indian intelligence agent, captured by Pakistan, has confessed that he was organizing and supporting these criminal groups to perpetrate terrorism in Pakistan.

Zulqarnain Chheena said Pakistan and our entire region faces Hindutva terrorism. He said the BJP-RSS extremists continue to espouse the fiction of “Akhand Bharat” where minorities either convert to Hinduism or become second class citizens.