Summary Sartaj Aziz addressed a meeting of OIC Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir in New York.
NEW YORK (Web Desk) - Addressing the meeting of the OIC Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir in New York, Adviser to PM on National Security & Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz reiterated that Pakistan remains committed to finding a just and peaceful resolution to the Jammu and Kashmir dispute.
The meeting attended by the OIC s foreign ministers was held in New York on the fringes of the United Nations General Assembly.
Sartaj Aziz told participants that Pakistan s principled position on the Kashmir dispute is based on the UN Security Council Resolutions, which remain unimplemented to this day.
“Instead of upholding the inalienable right to self-determination promised to the Kashmir people by the United Nations and to fulfill its own pledges, India decided to try to quell the Kashmiri struggle by use of brute force. As a result, more than 90,000 Kashmiris have been killed by the Indian Security forces over the last two decades in Indian Occupied Kashmir,” he said.
The adviser remarked that the Kashmiri leaders continue to remain in detention or have been put under house arrest. The people of Indian Occupied Kashmir, including women, are being arrested for hoisting the national flag of Pakistan. Framing treason charges for hoisting the Pakistani flag is legally untenable, since the Kashmiri people have never accepted the Indian occupation.
Referring to recent ban on beef sale in Kashmir, Sartaj Aziz said that India is attempting to change the demographic make-up of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir by settling non-State, non-Muslim subjects in the territory.
He said Pakistan is steadfast in extending political, moral and diplomatic support to the people of Kashmir in their just struggle for their inalienable right to self-determination.
Pakistan is ready to hold talks with India at any level without any preconditions, he added.
He said ceasefire violations by India across the Line of Control and the Working Boundary have resulted in loss of many civilian lives, including women and children.
He urged the international community to impress upon India to refrain from Ceasefire Violations, which are becoming a threat to peace in the region.
Meanwhile, the Contact Group of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on Jammu and Kashmir expressed solidarity with the people of Kashmir and extended full support to their cause.
