WASHINGTON: Major world powers should push India and Pakistan to rebuild collective respect and peaceful relations, says the rearmost report
on the Kashmir disagreement by the International Crisis Group (ICG).
The two neighbors should do so by “ continuing formal bilateral ties and re-engaging with Kashmiri political leaders,” the report adds.
The report also says that while Pakistan backs Kashmiri activists, the “ separatist insurrection (is) largely original”.
The report highlights an “ encouraging” development in these pressures, pointing out that “ New Delhi has held back-channel addresses with Pakistan, leading to an agreement to admire the 2003 ceasefire along the Line of Control”.
But the report warns that any incident could lead to a direct conflict between the two nuclear powers.
Pakistan also transferred a strong communication to the transnational community on Kashmir Solidarity Day, prompting the world not to allow India to change the demography of the disputed region.
Pakistan’s minister in Washington, Asad Majeed Khan, said that “ the BJP government has a long-term design of altering region’s demography” and “ has continued to pursue it unabatedly”.
“ The transnational community, especially the US, must play their due part in precluding a demographic change in the immorally enthralled home,” he said. “ They also need to convert India to cease mortal rights violations there and to take meaningful way to resolve the 75- time-old disagreement.”
Ambassador Munir Akram, Pakistan’s envoy to the United Nations in New York, explained how on Aug 5, 2019, India progressed, through unilateral and illegal measures, to attempt the outright annexation of engaged Jammu and Kashmir.
“ India’s revolutionist autocrats have themselves ominously called this a “ final result,” said Mr. Akram while emphasizing the need to help India from continuing “ these unilateral and illegal measures that constitute obvious violations of the UN Charter and transnational law.”
In Washington, the Kashmiri community held a small kick outside the Indian Embassy as the Covid-19 epidemic doesn’t allow large gatherings. The protesters chanted taglines against the Indian occupation and mortal rights violations and prompted the United States to convert India to allow the people of Kashmir to use the universal right to decide their future.
Ambassador Akram noted that the UN Security Council hadn’t only reaffirmed the right of tone- determination of Kashmiri people but had also “ set out the modality to do so a fair and unprejudiced plebiscite conducted under the aegis of the United Nations”.
