ISLAMABAD: Member British Parliament Lord Qurban Hussain urged the international community, UN bodies and world powers to shun ‘double standards’ and find out lasting and permanent solution to Kashmir dispute.
In an exclusive interview with daily Pakistan Today, Lord Qurban Hussain lashed out at the world for the double standard and non-serious attitude to resolve the decades-long Kashmir issue.
“If world shuns its duplicity and stands with its own formulated international laws, norms and values, then it can easily settle the dispute by just pushing Indian government to implement the UN security council resolutions”, he said.
He raised questions as to how the Western World implemented the UN resolutions elsewhere in the world especially in western world while they adopted altogether a different approach to execute similar resolution in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
He further stated that in the case of South Sudan, the UNSC passed a resolution, which was implemented at once, resulting in their independence. Lord Qurban stated that all the steps taken by India since 1947 to date regarding Kashmir are totally illegitimate and in sheer violation of local as well as of international laws.
New Delhi has violated UN security council resolutions by refusing the UN commission to enter Kashmir, and denying even UN observers to investigate growing human rights violations. India is openly challenging all the international laws, rules and regulations and the world is mere looking the world worst human rights violations in the occupied valley as silent spectator.
India is not intended to reverse its decision of August 2019 rather than moving one step forward by executing another are plans. They are rapidly changing the Muslim population ratio there and issued domicile to the lacs of Muslims in this regard to get them out from the valley. So, it may be in the future plans of India that after changing the population ratio India would say let’s do census on Kashmir now.
Do you see any serious thinking, any plausible formula or any thinking in any think tank which can be acceptable for the India, Kashmiris and Pakistan? There are various think tanks who are discussing this issue but actual problem lies India’s end, It’s important to see that, is India going to accept anything on Kashmir issue, especially in the presence of current extremist govt of Modi, looks not working. Pakistan and Kashmir want to resolve this issue through negotiations but India is not interested in its peaceful solution.
Soon after India’s decision to revoke special status of IIOJK, how do you see such development? Before this unilateral action (revoking special status of Kashmir) taken by India on Kashmir, India used to tell the world that Kashmir issue is a bilateral issue and Pakistan and India has agreed upon on this in the Shimla Agreement as well, so world has nothing to do with this. Now what about that bilateral status after taking unilateral action by revoking special status of Kashmir through article 370 and 35-A.
I think Pakistan lacks in highlighting this point at international forums, that no more Shimla agreement exists now and it’s not a bilateral issue any more. India will keep on doing such actions in future as well until and unless the India is not being pushed and pressurized by the world to stop human rights violations in Kashmir and provide the right of self-determination to the Kashmir. But one thing always remember that cruelty does not exist always ultimately it has to end up at any day.
Although UN Security Council sessions were called but looks those sessions useless. Noting any decision was made which can force India to reverse its decision of 5th August 2019. Nothing any decision was made in those sessions which forced India to not violate human rights in Kashmir. Similarly, nothing any decision was made which can force India to reduce their army strength in Kashmir.
Nothing such type of decision was taken which can end impunity given to the Indian army according to their army act. Nothing any decision was made which can force India to provide right of self-determination to Kashmiris. Similarly Indian army’s cruelty on Kashmiris cannot be challenged in any court. So how can we say that those UN security council’s sessions were useful.
And if we see Muslim countries and especially Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) role we see that is very disappointing also. We don’t see any concrete actions/steps taken by the OIC regarding Kashmir issue.
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