Kashmiris mark 77 years of unimplemented UN resolutions with digital truck campaign in New York
New York: The Kashmiri American community observed the 77th anniversary of unimplemented United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan (UNCIP) resolution by deploying digital trucks in New York City. The vehicles carries messages backing the Kashmiri’ right to self-determination and exposing India’s ongoing violations in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, including settler colonial policies and demographic engineering.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the UNCIP, established by the UN Security Council in 1948, was mandated to investigate and mediate the dispute over Jammu and Kashmir between India and Pakistan. It passed a resolution on August 13, 1948, stating that ‘the Government of India and the Government of Pakistan reaffirm their wish that the future status of the state of Jammu and Kashmir shall be determined in accordance with the will of the people.’
The digital trucks’ campaign, sponsored by Washington-based ‘World Kashmir Awareness Forum’, drew attention to the decades-old delay in implementing the UNCIP resolution of August 13, 1948. Slogans flashing on the trucks read: “Struggle for Free Kashmir Will Never Impede: To UN Resolutions India Will Have to Concede”, “In Kashmir India Enforcing Ethnic Cleansing: UN Guilty of Inertia and Caught Sleeping”, “Kashmiris Reject Indian Occupation: UN Resolution only Solution”,“Kashmir Conflict Should be Heeded: Mediation of President Trump is Highly Needed”; “Settler Colonialism and Demographic Alterations: India Shreds UN Resolutions”, and “No Election, No Selection: UN Resolution the Only Solution.”
Dr. Ghulam N. Mir, President, World Kashmir Awareness Forum, said the UNCIP was tasked with facilitating a ceasefire, demilitarization, and holding a plebiscite under the auspices of the UN to determine the future political status of Kashmir as mandated by the UNSC Resolution 47 of April 21, 1948. He added that the dream of Kashmiris remains unfulfilled to this day, but they remain resilient and hopeful of their future.
Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, Chairmanof the Forum said that Kashmir is not an internal matter for India, it is an international dispute recognized by the UN resolutions. He said that India was violating International law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention by changing IIOJK’s demography under military occupation. He warned, “Without real diplomatic and economic pressure, Kashmir’s identity could disappear within a generation”.
Dr. Imtiaz Khan, a Kashmiri American scholar, said that the UN’s failure to implement its own resolutions emboldened India to integrate Kashmir and pursue settler colonialism, demographic alteration and ethnic cleansing, particularly after August 2019. “Under these circumstances the credibility of UN is at stake,” he warned.
Others speakers, including Raja Mukhtar, Sardar Taj Khan, Sardar Sawar Khan, Advocate Sardar Imtiaz Khan Garalvi, Sardar Zarif Khan, Sardar Zubair Khan, Raja Liaqat Kiyani, and Sardar Shoaib Irshad, urged for world intervention to resolve the Kashmir dispute in line with the UN resolutions and the Kashmiris’ aspirations.
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