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 managing the 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 are still a reality which cannot be overlooked. He lamented that India has 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 have been lost in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, and two nuclear powers of the region i.e. Pakistan and India are at the threshold of a war today. The AJK Prime Minister observed that India wanted to resolve Kashmir issue through the use of force instead of peaceful political and diplomatic means, but the usurper must keep in mind that none of its tactics can deprive the Kashmiri people of their fundamental right to self-determination.
Declaring the right of self-determination as the mother of all human rights, he said that the principle of the right to self-determination is considered as the basis of all human rights and the human dignity across the world.
Referring to the worst atrocities and trampling of human rights by the Indian Army in occupied Kashmir, Niazi asserted that the situation had become highly alarming because of the inhuman treatment being meted out to the defenseless Kashmiri people and now the occupation army is poised to eliminate the whole of Kashmiri nation.—APP
