Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob Khan sits in a protest along with other leaders outside the United Nation office in Islamabad. PHOTO: AFP
The Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Barjees Tahir has accused United Nations (UN) of adopting delaying tactics in settling the Kashmir dispute — which is a potential threat to the peace and stability in South Asia.
The federal minister was addressing a public gathering in connection with Kashmir’s Black Day, which was observed across Azad Jammu and Kashmir to condemn the Indian army’s invasion and occupation of the territory on October 27, 1947.
“If UN can divide Sudan into two and create East Timor by breaking Indonesia, then why this organisation hesitates to settle the Kashmir dispute,” the federal minister said.
Tahir said the delay in resolving the Kashmir dispute may put the regional peace at stake. Besides UN the United States would also be responsible for it, he added.
He asked the world community to send their teams in the occupied Jammu and Kashmir to investigate the unmarked graves and put pressure on India to stop human rights violations in Kashmir.
The federal minister said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his government will continue to extend their support to the people of Jammu and Kashmir for their right of self-determination.
Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Chaudhry Abdul Majeed, opposition leader in Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly Raja Farooq Haider and Ameer Jamat-e-Islami Azad Kashmir Abdur Rashid Turabi also addressed the Black Day rally.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 28th, 2013.
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