AJK PM urges UNSC to ensure implementation of Jan 5 resolution

Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan Niazi on Tuesday called upon the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to ensure implementation of its resolution of January 5, 1949 by holding of a plebiscite in the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir to enable the Kashmiri people to decide their future.

In a message ahead of the right to self-determination day being observed on Wednesday, he said that the UN Security Council resolution of January 5, 1949, and other resolutions on the Kashmir conflict were still a reality which could not be overlooked. He lamented that India had constantly been creating hurdles in the peaceful settlement of Kashmir issue by refusing to implement these resolutions.

As a consequence, he maintained that hundreds of thousands of lives had been lost in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and two nuclear powers of the region – Pakistan and India – were at the threshold of a war.

The AJK premier observed that India wanted to resolve Kashmir issue through the use of force instead of peaceful political and diplomatic means, saying the “usurper must keep in mind that none of its tactics can deprive the Kashmiri people of their fundamental right to self-determination”.

He said the principle of right to self-determination was considered the basis of all human rights and dignity across the world. Therefore, no power on the earth can snatch this legitimate and undeniable right of the Kashmiri people, he added.

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Referring to the worst atrocities and trampling of human rights by the Indian Army in occupied Kashmir, Niazi asserted that the situation had become alarming because of the inhuman treatment being meted out to the defenceless Kashmiris.

He said the occupation army was poised to eliminate the whole of Kashmiri nation. "The appalling and inhumane situation in Kashmir, caused by the Indian occupation army, has deteriorated to unheard levels of depravity," said the AJK Prime Minister."

There will be worst humanitarian disaster of the human history if notice of the Indian repression is not taken in time," he cautioned and stressed that it was the moral responsibility of the international community to exert pressure on India to stop repression in the IIOJK.

He urged the global powers to resolve the Kashmir issue through peaceful, political and diplomatic means and save the people of the IIOJK from the appalling conditions they were facing due to their legitimate demand for peaceful grant of right to self-determination.

"After India's continual skip from implementing the UN Security Council resolutions, it is the responsibility of the world body to consider other options within the framework of its charters, and compel India to grant the right to self-determination to the Kashmiri people," he said.