Peshawar, September 23, 2023 (PPI-OT):The political and diplomatic experts have termed the visit of caretaker Prime Minister, Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar to United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) as highly successful and productive for Pakistan.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the political and diplomatic experts in Peshawar on Saturday said the Prime Minister has won the hearts and minds of Kashmiris after highlighting the Kashmir dispute in the most effective manner at the UNGA.
Manzoorul Haq, former Ambassador of Pakistan, in a media interview said that the Prime Minister deserved praise for boldly highlighting the atrocities and human rights violations in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) during his historic address.
Despite deployment of over nine lakh troops at IIOJK, the fascist Modi government has failed to suppress the freedom movement in the occupied territory.
He said the gruesome murder of the Khalistan Movement Sikh leader in Canada had raised serious questions about the state of India and exposed the negative policies of the fascist Modi regime against minorities.
On August 5, 2019, he said, the Modi government had made a deep rooted conspiracy to rob Kashmiris of their identity, history and culture. India had deprived oppressed Kashmiris of all kinds of liberties and human rights since 1947, and that the fascist Modi government’s illegal and unconstitutional acts of August 5, 2019 of revoking special status of Kashmir has exposed his conspiracy to rob Kashmiris of their history, language and ethno-cultural identity.
He said the illegal occupation of Kashmir by India contravened multiple articles of the 30 fundamental human rights of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) drafted by representatives from all the regions of the world including India on December 10, 1948 and was subsequently adopted by UNGA.
He said this declaration was applied to all the signatory members of the UN including India and restrained them from abuse, exploitation, maltreatment and all kinds of violence in the IIOJK besides violation of any fundamental rights protected in UDHR.
“India went against several passed UN Security Council’s resolutions after revoking the IIOJK’s special status and I urged the international community including world powers to press Modi Govt to immediately go back to pre-August 5, 2019 status of IIOJK and give right of self-determination to the oppressed Kashmiris as promised to them by the world peace body.”
He said the road to peace in South Asia was passing through Kashmir and durable peace in the subcontinent was only possible through resolution of the decade’s long Kashmir dispute in accordance with the UNSC resolutions.
Professor Dr A.H. Hilali, former Chairman, Political Science Department, University of Peshawar also termed the visit of caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq to UNGA as highly productive for Pakistan.
The prime minister held important meetings with different world leaders, financial and business bodies that showed keen interests in the economic revival plans in Pakistan, he said and added that PM Kakar held constructive discussion with the Managing Director IMF and hoped that the upcoming government would carry on the economic plan for progress and prosperity of the people of Pakistan.
Dr Hilali praised the Prime Minister for highlighting the issue of TTP and Daesh involved in launching attacks on Pakistan from across the western border. He said that the recent attacks from Afghanistan on Chitral were testimony to this fact.
He said that about five million Afghans refugees including about 2.8 million legal were living in Pakistan for over four decades and time has come that they should be repatriated to their home country. He regretted that the international community had made very limited contributions for the wellbeing of these huge numbers of Afghan refugees in Pakistan and left the entire burden on Islamabad to shoulder.
Islamophobia and climate change have emerged as serious challenges, and time has come for redressal of these issues through the UNGA platform, he added.
Mushtaq Ahmed Shah, Vice Chairman, Jummu and Kashmir Peoples League (JKPL) termed the visit of caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar to UNGA as highly successful and praised him for winning hearts and minds of the Kashmiris after boldly highlighting Indian forces’ atrocities and human rights abuses at IIOJK during his landmark address at the UNGA.
He said Indian occupation forces had resorted to extra judicial killing of hundreds of innocent Kashmiris in fake encounters, putting the Kashmiris’ leadership behind bars, imposing clampdown on media and using women and children abuses as weapons of war to suppress freedom movement after August 5 illegal actions.
Mushtaq said Indian forces even didn’t allow mass ritual and funeral of great Kashmiri leader, Syed Ali Gillani and forcefully snatched his body from the bereaved family and buried him at night. Similarly, great Hurriyat leader, Muhammad Yasin Malik was jailed for life in a fake case to silence his strong voice for Kashmir’s freedom, he expressed.
The Vice Chairman JKPL said India has failed to suppress the indigenous freedom movement in IIOJK despite the brutal killing of freedom fighter Burhan Wani and other Kashmiris leadership and youth in a fake encounter.
He claimed the Indian Govt had provided nearly six million illegal domicile certificates of IIOJK to Hindus in a bid to bring about demographic change there.
He urged the international community including UNO to take notice of the gruesome violation of human rights violations including forced disappearance of over 8,000 innocent Kashmiris, 8,652 unmarked mass graves, imposition of longest curfew on some 10 million unarmed Kashmiris, extra judicial killings, rape and molestation of women and children at IIOJK.
Since 1989, he said over 162,000 Kashmiris were brutally tortured, 96,000 cases of extra judicial killings, around 162,000 cases of arbitrary arrests and torture, over 25,000 pellet guns’ injuries, 11,250 women raped, 23,000 women widowed and over 108,000 children were orphaned by the Indian army at IIOJK.
The experts deplored UNSC members’ apathy towards addressing the Kashmir dispute, which was a flashpoint between two nuclear armed neighboring countries.
They urged the international community and UNO to look beyond trade and business interests and forced India to give right of self-determination to Kashmiris on the pattern of East Taimur to bring lasting peace in South Asia.
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