Shabir Shah urges int’l community to play its due role to help resolve Kashmir dispute peacefully in line with UNSC Resolutions

SRINAGAR, Jan 02 (SABAH): Senior leader All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Shabir Ahmed Shah has urged the international community to play its due role to help resolve Kashmir dispute peacefully in line with the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolutions.

In his message from Tihar Jail, the jailed leader while extending his New Year greetings to people across the globe said, “As the Kashmir dispute enters into 76th calendar year it is the responsibility of the UN and all the influential world governments to play their role to seek a peaceful solution of the lingering dispute awaiting final settlement”.

Terming Kashmir as one of the oldest unresolved disputes, Shabir Ahmed Shah said that despite the lapse of 75 years the world remained blithely unconcerned over the plight of Kashmiris who have been braving the brunt of India’s prolonged military occupation. Voicing his serious concern over the continued illegal and forcible occupation of Kashmir by the Indian state, Shah said that it was quite unfortunate that Kashmiris were being victimizing-merely for demanding the implementations of the UNSC resolutions that guaranteed them the right to self-determination.

Referring to the fast-deteriorating situation in the held territory, Shabir Ahmed Shah pointed out that the extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests, torture, ill-treatment of women, ban on political activities and violation of all basic human rights by Indian troops had become a new norm in the held territory.

He urged the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, to take immediate notice of the systematic genocide of the Kashmiris by the Indian forces in Kashmir and put pressure on India to give the Kashmiri people the right to decide their political future by themselves.