SRINAGAR: All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) leaders and parties have said that the United Nations should fulfill its legal and moral obligations to help implement the 5th January 1949 historic resolution, which granted right to self-determination to the people of Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the APHC spokesman in a statement issued in Srinagar, expressed concern over the deteriorating situation in IIOJK. He said the unabated genocide of the oppressed Kashmiris at the hands of Indian forces and the brazen violations of international laws and commitments made by India before the various international fora have brought the whole world at the brink of yet another world war.
The DFP spokesman, Advocate Arshad Iqbal, in a statement issued in Srinagar, while reminding the UN of its obligations towards the peaceful settlement of the lingering Kashmir dispute, said that it was high time that the international community, especially the UN, should come forward and play its much needed role to resolve the Kashmir dispute and stop the ongoing violation of human rights in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
Referring to the highly volatile situation in IIOJK, he said that since 1947 the unresolved dispute has led to widespread deaths and destruction. Kashmiris, he said, have been bearing the brunt of violence and India’s state terrorism for the past several decades.
“Innocent people of Kashmir are being killed, harassed, humiliated and tortured every now and then by the Indian trigger-happy forces”, he said adding Kashmir has been turned into a virtual hell for its residents by the India’s fascist regime that was hell bent on changing the demography of the territory to convert Muslim majority into a minority.
Ghulam Muhammad Khan Sopori in a statement in Srinagar said the Kashmir dispute continues to remain unresolved despite the UN resolutions, wars and bilateral agreements between India and Pakistan. He called upon the international community to intervene and help stop the worst atrocities and human rights violations committed by the Indian Army in IIOJK.
Incarcerated APHC leader Bilal Ahmed Siddiqui in a statement in Srinagar said that since last 75 years the subjugated people of Jammu and Kashmir had been waiting for the World Body to act upon its own resolution about granting right to self-determination.
Zamrooda Habib, Yasmeen Raja, Farida Behanji in their statements in Srinagar said the United Nations in its resolution passed on 5th January 1949 endorsed a binding to settle the Kashmir dispute through a free and fair plebiscite. They said this resolution established self-determination, which has been recognised as the most peaceful and democratic formula in the modern world, as the governing principle for the settlement of the dispute.
