The prime minister said that more than 107 people had been killed in IHK, with thousands others injured and worst human rights violations being committed at the state level.
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Talking to British Prime Minister Theresa May in NY, the Prime Minister said people of Jammu and Kashmir must be allowed to choose their destination under UN Security Council resolutions.
As Pakistan lobbies for the support of the worldwide community on the Kashmir issue – the main agenda of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s speech at the UNGA on Wednesday – Kashmiris from across the border will protest to “express their solidarity” with people of the valley, said Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry, former Prime Minister of Pakistan-held Kashmir.
“We’ve seen some progress, we want to see more, and I think moving forward we’ll just continue to work closely and try to encourage greater counter-terrorism cooperation with Pakistan but also within the region”, Toner said.
The UNGA session comes at a time when tensions between the two nations have risen following the Uri attack in which the heavily-armed four militants stormed the battalion headquarters of the Indian Army in the wee hours of Sunday, killing 18 jawans and injuring 19 other personnel.
Sharif railed about Kashmir in his meetings with British Prime Minister Theresa May and the USA secretary of state John Kerry, according to reports in Pakistani press based on briefings or statements from officials in the Prime Minister’s delegations to which Indian reporters have no access.
Kerry stressed on the need for exercising restraint in nuclear weapon programmes.
The prime minister also said that the issue of Kashmir should be resolved in accordance with the relevant UN Security Council resolutions.
Minister for Interior, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Tuesday said legitimate struggle of people of Indian Held Kashmir for right to self-determination can not be suppressed through might.
“If the global community does not succeed in asking India to immediately end state oppression on the innocent people in Jammu and Kashmir, then this would encourage India to increase the intensity of the continuing state atrocities”, Sharif added.
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He said the people of Jammu & Kashmir must be allowed to choose their destiny and longstanding resolutions of the UNSC on the right to self-determination of the Kashmiri people need to be implemented.
