Islamabad: A seminar was held under the auspices of the All Parties Hurriyet Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir chapter (APHC-AJK) in Islamabad, today, to mark the passing of a resolution on Kashmir by the UN on this day in 1949. The resolution has called for settling the Kashmir dispute by giving the Kashmiris their right to self-determination.
The speakers on the occasion highlighted the importance of the UN Kashmir resolutions, particularly the one passed on January 5, 1949, pledging the right to self-determination to the people of Kashmir.
The speakers said the January 5, 1949 resolution of the UN provides base to the Kashmiris’ struggle as in this resolution the right to self-determination of Kashmiris was recognized and had called for the withdrawal of troops from the territory.
The speakers deplored that the UN resolutions could not be implemented so far due to the intransigence of India and the dispute was not resolved despite the passage of seven decades. They said that India had converted the entire occupied Kashmir into a big prison. They said that during the last five months, over one hundred innocent people had been killed, thousands injured and hundred blinded and maimed by the Indian forces.
The speakers said that India was using every cheap tactic to suppress the Kashmiris’ ongoing liberation movement but would never succeed in its nefarious designs. They said that the Kashmir people would take their indigenous liberation movement to its logical conclusion at all costs.
They also urged the United Nations and other human rights organizations to take cognizance of the Indian state terrorism and help settle the lingering Kashmir dispute in accordance with the Kashmiris’ aspirations.
Meanwhile, a protest sit-in was held outside the United Nations Observers’ Office in Muzaffarabd, today, to deplore the failure of the World Body in resolving the Kashmir dispute. The participants of the sit-in were holding banners and placards with slogans in favour of freedom and against India.
Hurriyet leaders and other political leaders including Uzair Ahmad Ghazali, Mushtaq-ul-Islam, Raja Aftab Ahmad Advocate, Syed Saleem Hussain Shah, Showkat Javaid Mir, Chaudhry Muhammad Mushtaq, Raja Aaqib Safeer, Usman Ali Awan and Muhammad Ismail in their addresses said that the UN had passes the resolution on this day in 1949 but could not implement it despite the lapse of almost seven decades.