Pakistan pushing to pressurise India over Kashmir conundrum

Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi denounced the brutal tactics employed by the Indian forces in suppressing the mass uprising


APP October 31, 2016

NEW YORK: Pakistan is pushing the international community to pressurise India to let the Kashmiri people exercise their UN-pledged right of self-determination through a plebiscite, said Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi on Saturday.

She added that this would pave the way for peace and stability in the region. The envoy was speaking at a gathering at the Pakistan House to mark the anniversary of India’s invasion and occupation of Kashmir on 27 October 1947.

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In her address the ambassador said on the directions of the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, we have raised and continue to raise the Kashmir dispute at all forums of the UN.

She denounced the brutal tactics employed by the Indian forces in suppressing the mass uprising. She termed the prolonged curfew in occupied Kashmir as ‘107 days of shame and infamy’.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 29th, 2016.

COMMENTS (3)

Sunil | 7 years ago | Reply So funny. When will you ask China to do the same in COK? No one will listen to you and we all know that the resolution was non-binding and for any plebiscite to take place Pakistan and China have to vacate Kashmir. I doubt you will publish this as it is far too honest for your liking. One last thing, the resolution is dead, gone and no longer applicable because in 1972 you signed the Simla Agreement that made the issue a bilateral issue. By the way my family come from Kashmir and we are happy to be part of India, because we were always Indian.
Amit | 7 years ago | Reply Good this means Pakistan is looking for a way out and somehow just want help from West to help get settlement with India. As far a pushing India is concerned Pak simply do not have a capacity or capability to do that.
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