Bone Of Contention: Resolution of Kashmir key to peace

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Deputy Permanent Representative to United Nations Office Aamar Aftab Qureshi has said that for durable peace in South Asia, Kashmir dispute needs to be resolved. He said history, legal and political realities could not be changed by fabrication, lies and false claims over occupied territories. The most egregious form of state terrorism by India was being perpetrated in Jammu and Kashmir and independent human rights organisations had confirmed the existence of over 6,000 unnamed mass graves in the Indian Kashmir, he said. The deputy representative emphasised that Kashmiris were terrorists to the Indian authorities much like Nelson Mandela was to the apartheid regime.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 13^th, 2016.