Lodhi briefs UNSC president over India’s illegal actions in occupied Kashmir

Lodhi also handed a letter from FM Qureshi to UN Secretary-General António Guterres


​ Our Correspondent August 07, 2019
The meeting was held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York where Lodhi apprised Wronecka about India’s continues violations of UN Security Council resolutions. PHOTO: RADIO PAKISTAN

Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dr Maleeha Lodhi met the President of UN Security Council(UNSC) Joanna Wronecka and briefed her about India’s illegal actions in occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

The meeting was held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York where Lodhi apprised Wronecka about India’s continued violations of UNSC resolutions.

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Lodhi also handed a letter from Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi to UN Secretary-General António Guterres asking the SC to ensure full compliance of its own resolutions in Indian-occupied Kashmir (IoK).

The letter, ‘categorically rejects the illegal Indian annexation of occupied J&K in express violation of SC resolutions’.

On Monday, India revoked special status of occupied Kashmir by abolishing Article 370 of the constitution which gave special autonomy to the Muslim-majority Himalayan region.

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The step would mean revocation of a bar on property purchases by people from outside the state. Such plans have in the past provoked warnings of a backlash in Kashmir.

The law had also reserved state government jobs for residents, as well as college places, in an effort to keep the state from being overrun by people from the rest of India.

Following the revocation of Article 370, the Indian Army and Indian Air Force have been put on high alert.

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