The resolution also “recognises the right” of such peoples “to seek and receive all kinds of moral and material assistance” in the “legitimate exercise of their right to self-determination”. The funeral was followed by protests, which included rock pelting. Ambassador Lodhi believed that the consent of the UN Human Rights Commission to send a fact-finding mission to Indian occupied Kashmir would exert pressure on India. A “separate” dialogue on Kashmir will not stop India’s repression. For the last few years, India has been constantly denying the disputed nature of Kashmir, at least IOK, rather now putting a claim on AJK and GB. But, its foreign secretary indicated a readiness for a solution based on “autonomy plus” (that is, more than provided in Article 370 of the Indian constitution) and “independence minus” (that is, short of full statehood).
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He said that his meeting with Amin was held in a conducive environment where they discussed a range of issues included the situation in Kashmir. In a way, India has made up her mind to see the Kashmir dispute through the prism of terrorism.
In the world of realism, both the invitation and the responses are somewhat disorientated or beyond the perception of political analysts of South Asian region.
There is thus no point in talks with India at this time. Pakistan called for implementation of the United Nations resolutions; India obfuscated. It would weaken the Kashmiri struggle for their right of self-determination. She emphasised that India was not serious in resolving Kashmir issue and, hence, United Nations should persuade the Modi government for a peaceful settlement of this long-standing dispute.
Aziz had apprised the OIC official of the “grave humanitarian situation” in Indian-held valley, where large-scale violations of human rights were reportedly being carried out by Indian forces. This has, in turn, given the security agencies the license to further their brutalities in Balochistan in the guise of “countering Indian interference”.
More than 68,000 people have been killed since rebel groups began fighting Indian forces in 1989 and in the subsequent Indian military crackdown. This well-planned strategy is a violation of UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights-1948 and Geneva Conventions-1949.
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Coming from a country that has endured almost four decades of continuing war caused by extremism fomented by Pakistan, Mr Karzai, not surprisingly, “appreciated” Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s observation pertaining to Balochistan, where suppression of the people, killing and bloodshed has been the norm since the 1940s.
