United Nations failed Kashmiri people, Maleeha Lodhi says

Pakistani envoy says UN's decolonisation agenda will remain incomplete till resolution of Kashmir dispute

Pakistan's Permanent representative to the United Nations Maleeha Lodhi has said that the international organisation's  decolonisation agenda would remain incomplete without the resolution of Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan on the basis of Security Council resolutions.

Addressing the UN General Assembly's Special Political and Decolonisation Committee, she said the Security Council had pledged the right of self-determination to the Kashmiri people. She further added that for over six decades it failed to hold a plebiscite to allow the Kashmiri people to determine their destiny.

Speaking in the UN's 4 th Cttee in debate on decolonization issues; said Kashmir & Palestine were unfinished agenda pic.twitter.com/w5GfoXnaop

— Maleeha Lodhi (@LodhiMaleeha) October 7, 2016

I said UN's decolonization agenda will remain incomplete without resolution of Kashmir dispute

— Maleeha Lodhi (@LodhiMaleeha) October 7, 2016

Lodhi also tweeted saying, "Right to self determination is fundamental human right but it's unfortunate that even in 21st century people live under foreign occupation."

Right to self determination is fundamental human right but it's unfortunate that even in 21 st century people live under foreign occupation

— Maleeha Lodhi (@LodhiMaleeha) October 7, 2016

Pakistan's Permanent representative to the UN also said that generations of Kashmiris have only seen broken promises and brutal oppression. She added that both people of Kashmir and Palestine must be enabled to exercise their inalienable right to self determination.

Said at UN that generations of Kashmiris have only seen broken promises and brutal oppression

— Maleeha Lodhi (@LodhiMaleeha) October 7, 2016

Both people of Kashmir and Palestine must be enabled to exercise their inalienable right to self determination

— Maleeha Lodhi (@LodhiMaleeha) October 7, 2016

Separately, the PM’s Special Envoy on Jammu and Kashmir Senator Syed Mushahid Hussain has warned that tension between Pakistan and India “can impact the on-going war on terrorism”, urging the US to help resolve the lingering Kashmir dispute which can threaten the world peace.

“Pakistan has deployed 200,000 troops on the western border with Afghanistan to fight terrorists. If tension with India increased, Pakistan will have to shift troops to its eastern border,” the senator said while talking to APP.



Hussain said that any talk of peace in South Asian region has to be comprehensive and must include all aspects that are causing instability in the volatile region.

“If you talk of peace in the region, it has to be comprehensive. Talk of peace cannot be compartmentalised, it cannot be segregated. Kashmir is the root cause of tension between the two nuclear-armed states.”

Senator Mushahid Hussain and MNA Shazra Mansab have been visiting the US as PM’s special envoys to highlight the plight of Kashmiri people who are facing the worst kind of suppression and brutalities at the hands of Indian forces. Hussain said it was the moral responsibility of the US, which is also a signatory to the UN resolutions on Kashmir, to help resolve the issue.

“This is an issue between the two nuclear-armed countries”, which could have implications for the world peace. The senator stated they were not visiting the US as government’s representatives, but as representatives of the entire nation which has added more weight to the arguments they made during their meetings with the US officials, American media and the leading think-tanks.