Jaishankar’s remarks a futile attempt to distort historical realities about Kashmir: DFP Spokesperson
SRINAGAR, Sep 02 (SABAH): Terming the Indian Foreign Minister
Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar’s statement as an attempt to hoodwink international community, the Jammu Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party has said that Kashmir is an internationally recognized disputed territory that awaits final settlement in line with the United Nations Security Council resolutions.
While reacting to Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar’s recent remarks on Kashmir, the DFP Spokesman Advocate Arshad Iqbal said that such a baseless statement by a person like Jaishankar reflects his wilful ignorance of over a dozen UN-mandated resolutions that not only bear witness to the region’s disputed status but also call for a referendum to allow Kashmiri people to decide their political future .
“Kashmir a long outstanding dispute has been pending on the UN agenda for the past seven decades”, Iqbal said, adding that Indian minister was in the habit of issuing such misleading statements aimed at distorting historical facts about Kashmir.
The DFP spokesman, while reminding the UN of its obligations towards the peaceful settlement of the lingering dispute, said that it was high time that the international community especially the UN should come forward and play its much needed role to resolve the Kashmir issue and stop the ongoing violation of human rights in Occupied Kashmir.
Referring to the highly volatile situation in the troubled region, he said that since 1947 the unresolved dispute has led to widespread deaths and destruction in the Indian occupied territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Kashmiris, he said have been bearing the brunt of violence and India’s state terrorism for the past several decades.
“Innocent people of Kashmir are being killed, harassed, humiliated and tortured every now and then by the Indian trigger happy forces”, he said adding Kashmir has been turned into a virtual hell for it’s residents by the India’s fascist regime that was hellbent on changing the region’s demography to convert Muslim majority into minority.
Reiterating his party’s call for holding referendum to allow Kashmiris to determine their political future he said that implementation of the UN Security Council resolutions and holding plebiscite under the auspices of the United Nations was the only way forward to resolve dispute peacefully.
He said that the Indian government needs to realize that it cannot suppress Kashmiris’ legitimate struggle by killing innocent civilians, imprisoning Hurriyat leaders and activists or simply caging dissent and dissenters in the region.