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Pakistan complains to UN about India's plan to build wall along LoC

Pakistan's ambassador to UN Maleeha Lodhi has written two letters dated September 4 and 9 to UNSC

Web Desk September 25, 2015

in this file photo pakistan 039 s permanent representative in un maleeha lodhi addresses the security council photo inp

In this file photo, Pakistan's Permanent Representative in UN Maleeha Lodhi addresses the Security Council. PHOTO: INP

Pakistan has complained to the UN Security Council (UNSC) about India's plans to construct a wall along the Line of Control allegedly to convert it "into a quasi-international border".

Pakistan's ambassador to the UN Maleeha Lodhi has written two letters dated September 4 and 9 to the UNSC.

In the September 9 letter to UNSC President Vitaly Churkin, Lodhi expressed "deep concern" at the plan by India to construct a 10-metre-high and 135-feet-wide embankment (wall) along the 197km boundary between Jammu & Kashmir and Pakistan.

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In the letter, Lodhi said Pakistan "considers the embankment a permanent structure that will bring about a material change in the territory in violation inter alia of Security Council resolution of 1948.

"The state of Jammu & Kashmir is internationally recognised disputed territory with a number of United Nations security council resolutions on the official status of Jammu & Kashmir awaiting implementation," Lodhi said.

Meanwhile, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Vikas Swarup told reporters on Thursday that India was aware of the two letters that had been written.

The first letter written on September 4 says there is no bilateral dialogue, Swarup said, adding the BSF and Pakistan Rangers have already met.

"So the letter itself has contradicted itself that there is no dialogue. There has been a dialogue," Swarup said.

The article originally appeared on Times of India

COMMENTS (39)

Last Word | 8 years ago | Reply Why is Pakistan objecting to construction of a wall when it did not object to the barbed wire fencing by India as both serve the same purpose to stop inflirtation ? Pakistan, understandably has serious objections to wall construction since it would pose a formidable barrier for its proxies to cross the LoC with ease. Pakistan, as such has no moral rights to raise any objection since itself has handed over large mass of disputed territory to China, a third country as well as allowing the latter to construct a road. UN, most likely shall take no cognizance of Pakistan's complaint as done in the past for several others..

SEAsian | 8 years ago | Reply The UN knows the reality on the ground. They will welcome this wall of peace that will extended into PoK in the not-too-distant future.

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Hasan | 8 years ago | Reply Pakistan wants to keep sending terrorists unhindered.

MA | 8 years ago | Reply One way India can keep her improvished busy lugging tiles and mud to build the wall. They may be literally going along with the purda hai purda hai....

Kismat | 8 years ago | Reply I think India Pak can manage the wall together under joint mechanism. The wall will be lighted ,electrified to its whole length and the ditch alongside will be periodically operi filled with water from reservoir at Baghliar. While poor India pay for erecting the wall and digging the ditch with its cheap labor ,Pakistan share will be in the form of electricity and water which it has in abundance.

auginpk | 8 years ago | Reply @Great Wall of China: Well said.

p r sharma | 8 years ago | Reply 135 ft wide wall. even if the wall to be constructed why so wide ? . international community will enjoy it ( the stupidity of blame )

wiserneighbour | 8 years ago | Reply nothing gonna happen.Kashmir is bound by shimla agreement superseding all previous agreements. In short UN has no say in that.

SKChadha | 8 years ago | Reply Oh .... now even future plans of nations are also part of UN agenda .... A body which can't even solve the present issues will now indulge in 'Future Plans' .... Isn't it amazing?

Giri | 8 years ago | Reply Photographs please.

mahakaalchakra | 8 years ago | Reply Maliha Lodhi, in a TV debate on NDTV claimed that LeT or JuD is a charity organization of Pakistan lead by Hafiz Saeed. She being a former ambassador in US and in the UN should have known that Hafiz Saeed and LeT/JuD are declared terrorists and terror organization by the UN and USA both. So much so for the opinion of Pakistani intellectuals and bureaucrats on world forums. They will follow the line of the establishment,no matter what.

sami shahid | 8 years ago | Reply If India builds this wall....than Pakistan should build a wall on the border with Afghanistan and nobody in this universe should have a problem with it.

Indian | 8 years ago | Reply Kashmir rhetoric won't help Pakistan.

Pranav | 8 years ago | Reply Well No one cares about Kashmir in UN Anymore!

Pnpuri | 8 years ago | Reply One wonders why Pakistan is objecting to wall. It should be welcomed as it will stop trans LOC intrusion. At present, firing happens on LOC when ever Terrorists try to cross LOC. once such walls are built it will restrict intrusion entry and Line of Control will become Line of Peace. We should all welcome it.

Akhthar | 8 years ago | Reply The Indians are making fun of Pakistanis in the UN. No one gives us damn (whether its US & West) or the Gulf countries. The Gulf countries won't even bother about Syrian's, what to talk of Pakistanis. China won't talk as they are having problems with Muslims in Xinjiang. Talks or no talks, nothing going to happen.

Blithe | 8 years ago | Reply Musharraf already allowed them to build a fence , so what's the big deal?

VINOD | 8 years ago | Reply Naturally the board is empty. Who will comment on a bad joke.

a_writer | 8 years ago | Reply Madame Representative : Do you have a better idea to stem the tide of terrorists trying to sneak in from Pakistan?

Juggernaut | 8 years ago | Reply I believe pakistan need to change their permanent UN representative. One simple question why on earth India will build a wall to block the view on LOC. It is always better for India have fences on the border. This is getting ridiculous. She is simply reiterating the view of global terrorist Saiyad Salahuddin of Hizbul Mujahidin in place like UN.

BCCI | 8 years ago | Reply Yawwn

curious george | 8 years ago | Reply Since when a country started complaining about other country's plans which have not been yet formalized.Can anybody tell what UNO did to that complain.Just wrote NFA(Not For Action).

Bahubali | 8 years ago | Reply Mrs Lodhi has written to UN,. Now what will happen to India. Every country will boycott India and soon India will present J&K, Sircreek, Abc and Xyz to Pakistan on platter. We are so afraid here in India.

Nav | 8 years ago | Reply India's response to the letter based on the link in the article - Swarup asked that "has any action been taken by the UN on these letters. That is the first question. If there is action taken by the UN we will respond appropriately. If there is no action taken by the UN then this will mean that nobody has taken cognizance," of the letters, Swarup said.

Stuart | 8 years ago | Reply I am sure there wont be any takers in UN. India has already rubbished this claim stating Pakistan is just endorsing Syed Salahuddin's quote who is a global terrorist. And India will not waste time in responding to this. Pakistan must first build credibility by uprooting terrorism in its country before taking such complaints to UN. Global terrorists are still sheltered in Pakistan.

JD | 8 years ago | Reply Well start bombarding it as soon as the construction begins. The conflict will escalate, the international players busy in their materialistic objectives will themselves take notice.

Dubya | 8 years ago | Reply Cry baby ...

Point | 8 years ago | Reply dear india, a wall, disconnecting people via internet, banning meat wont do you good. It's nice to see india's 2025 vision of moving into caves by modi sarkar roshan hindustan

Feroz | 8 years ago | Reply Pakistan seems to be living in a world of its own, the fine line between reality and imagination erased long ago. Making a fool of oneself on the global stage seems to have become a habit. Real morons with not a clue about diplomacy have appropriated Foreign Policy, making the country a laughing stock. A very sad spectacle indeed !

Fawad | 8 years ago | Reply "10-metre-high and 135-feet-wide embankment (wall) along the 197km boundary"--- can that be possible? 135 feet wide wall making a single kilometer will consume so much concrete that it outright seems far fetched idea.

Rafi ka Diwana | 8 years ago | Reply Stop sending your young men as cannon fodder if you don't want the wall built.

Prakash | 8 years ago | Reply Why would India build a wall and forsake the daily pleasure of violating the LOC, as blamed by several dignitaries from across the border? Something doesn't add up here.

tasleem ulhaq | 8 years ago | Reply if india is constructing a wall along ,it means they are pushing pakistan to another war,as kasmir is a disputed territory and its not an international border but a line of control,india must stop this war pushing step.

Aziz | 8 years ago | Reply Are we so desperate to send mujahideens across that we are complaining about a wall

Abdul | 8 years ago | Reply They are trying to prevent Ajmal Kassab's from infiltrating. Don't protest. Just dig tunnels

Great Wall of China | 8 years ago | Reply This wall has a lot of advantages, for both sides. Since India is paying for it, there will be savings on Pakistan's part. There will be no cross border infiltration. Both India and Pakistan . will have to talk to each other politely,diplomatically, rationally. Chances of violent exchanges will be reduced. This is what both sides want. Talks can continue on and on and on, as it has with no result, nothing is lost in talking. Kashmir can remain a contentious issue. But the way to resolve it will be thru talks.

Virkaul | 8 years ago | Reply Pathetic standard of diplomacy revealed at UN when Maleeha Lodhi repeated lines of Syed Salahuddin, the recognised terrorist. Was this letter based on hearsay or facts like satellite imagery? Why complain construction of a wall that never was built as India has not given up its claims on GB and POK? On the other hand, Pakistan is bringing a third country into the disputed area to construct a road through it. I wonder how Pakistan could question India's objection to CPEC passing through the disputed region.

Imran Butt | 8 years ago | Reply This is a great move. Finally the 2 letters should get long over due attention to the Kashmir issue.

Dr Cocktail | 8 years ago | Reply Dialogue over the issue of embankment perhaps, which later came to surface after the end of the meeting sessions between BSF and DG rangers Punjab.

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