Pakistan wants result-oriented dialogue: Janjua

NSA says status quo no solution to the dispute, reiterates support for Kashmiris

ISLAMABAD: With several people killed by security forces in a fresh wave of violence in the disputed Himalayan region of Indian Occupied Kashmir, a top Pakistan government security official said
that Islamabad wants result-oriented dialogue with New Delhi.

This was stated by the Adviser to the Prime Minister on National Security Lt Gen (retired) Nasser Khan Janjua on Monday while addressing a seminar on human rights violations in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IoK). The seminar had been arranged by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) on Monday.

Janjua said that the hearts of Pakistanis throbbed with their Kashmiri brethren, whose voice for their right to self-determination cannot be suppressed.

He added that Pakistan was obliged to provide all kinds of support to Kashmiris as he reiterated that Islamabad will continue to provide moral, political and diplomatic support to Kashmiris until they secure their right to self-determination.

“Kashmiris are our own blood, and we will help them in winning their right to self-determination,” he added.

The national security advisor urged the international community to intervene and ensure stability in the disputed region.

Noting that such disputes cannot be resolved by force, he said that the United Nations resolutions on the dispute offer a path to peace.

Peaceful settlement of the dispute could secure the world, he added.



However, Janjua was quick to stress that the prevailing status quo was not the solution to the long-standing dispute, adding that successive generations of Kashmiris were inheriting the struggle for self-determination, a clear sign that the movement cannot be suppressed.

He also railed against the international community, noting that world powers, leading human right organisations had turned a blind eye to the atrocities of Indian forces in Kashmir and that their silence on it was conspicuous.

The national security advisor reiterated that the unnoticed plight of Kashmiris showcased double-standards of world powers. Over 700,000 occupied forces humiliate, beat and desecrated Kashmiris daily, he added

Indian forces, he claimed, were involved in the unabated murder of innocent Kashmiris.

Responding to a question, he categorically stated that India had violated the ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) with Pakistan to deflect attention away from its atrocities in the occupied valley.

Concerted, joint efforts required

Mishal Malik, the wife of Kashmiri leader Yasin Malik, said that to counter the Indian state’s atrocities in occupied Kashmir, there is a need for collaborative efforts between students, lawyers, politicians and intellectuals by setting aside internal disputes to highlight these human rights violations in the world.

Noting that collaborative efforts could yield positive results, she urged the Pakistan government to devise a proper policy and highlight it by sending various delegations to capitals of leading world powers.

Mishal disclosed that in occupied Kashmir, the land was being allocated to businessmen and others who were not natives of the valley in what was a deliberate attempt to alter the demography of the valley.

“The sole purpose of these efforts is to convert the Muslim majority into a minority,” Mishal warned.

SDPI Executive Director Dr Abid Qaiyum Sulehri said that the Kashmir dispute should be resolved as per the resolutions of the UN.

Former ambassador Shafqat Kakakhel said that Kashmiris must be taken on board in an effort to resolve the issue.

He too lamented that the world’s leading human rights organizations are silent over Indian atrocities in the oppressed valley.

Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry for Climate Change Romina Khurshid Alam said that Indian forces were targeting Kashmir youth in the occupied valley.

She stressed that Indian atrocities must be highlighted on social media.

Former Azad Jammu Kashmir minister Farzana Yaqub said that Kashmiris were sacrificing their lives for their motherland through an indigenous movement.  

Published in The Express Tribune, April 10^th, 2018.