APHC leaders, parties seek implementation of UN’s 5th January 1949 resolution on Kashmir
Srinagar: All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) and other Hurriyat parties have said that the United Nations should fulfill its legal and moral obligations of implementing the 5th January 1949 historic resolution, which granted right to self determination to the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the APHC leader 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 over seven decades the subjugated people of Jammu and Kashmir had been waiting for the World Body to implement its resolution about granting right to self-determination to them.
APHC leaders Zamrooda Habib, Yasmeen Raja and Farida Bahenji in their statements in Srinagar said the 5th January 1949 resolution established self-determination, which has been recognized as the most peaceful and democratic formula in the modern world, as the governing principle for the settlement of the disputes.
APHC leader, Muhammad Yousuf Naqash, in his statement in Srinagar called upon the United Nations to uphold its commitment by granting the Kashmiris their right to self-determination. He said Kashmiris unequivocally reject any alternative or secondary options and asserted that only right to self-determination in accordance with the UN resolutions is acceptable to the Kashmiris.
Hurriyat leaders, Maulana Musaib Nadvi and Israr Ahmad, in their statements reminded the UN of its responsibility regarding the settlement of the Kashmir dispute by giving the Kashmiris their right to self-determination as per its resolutions. They added that since 05 August 2019, when India abrogated special status of Kashmir, the Indian atrocities on the innocent Kashmiris had increased manifold.
APHC leaders, Fayaz Hussain Jafari and Syed Sabte Shabbir Qummi, in a joint statement issued in Srinagar said Jammu and Kashmir is still on the agenda of the United Nations as a dispute pending settlement. They also expressed concern over the deteriorating situation in IIOJK and 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 at the international fora have brought the whole world at the brink of yet another world war.
APHC leaders Hakeem Abdul Rasheed, Advocate Muzamal, Shabbir Ahmed, Ghulam Nabi War, Hafiz Rafiq Ahmed and Aqib Wani in a joint statement issued in Srinagar said that the unresolved Kashmir dispute was a serious question mark on the credibility of the United Nations. They said it is the responsibility of the World Body to settle the lingering dispute in according to its resolutions and the aspirations of the Kashmiri people.
APHC leader, Imrtiyaz Reshi, in a statement in Srinagar deplored the apathy and indifference of the United Nations and the civilized world towards the plight of the enslaved people of occupied Kashmir. He reminded the international community of its responsibilities towards the Kashmiri people who were being ruthlessly suppressed unabatedly by India with the use of its military might.
The Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party spokesman, Advocate Arshad Iqbal, in a statement issued in Srinagar, 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 lingering dispute. 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 Indian state terrorism for the past several decades.
The spokesman of Jammu and Kashmir Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen in a statement in Srinagar said with reference to the UN resolution of January 5, 1949, it is unfortunate that the Kashmir dispute has entered another year, 2024, due to the criminal silence of the international organizations. Kashmir and Palestine are two Muslim majority regions where the blood of innocent Muslims is being shed for decades, he added.
The Jammu and Kashmir National Front (JKNF) spokesman, Shafiqur Rehman, in a statement in Srinagar, termed the implementation of the UN proposed road-map as the most feasible solution to the Kashmir dispute. He urged the World Body to play its role in the implementation of the 5th January 1949 resolution.
Meanwhile, APHC-AJK leaders, including Zahid Ashraf, Muhammad Shafi Dar, Qazi Imran and Altaf Ahmed Butt in their statements in Islamabad castigated the Indian regime for colonizing the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir in utter disregard of the relevant UN resolutions and the UN Charter which recognised Kashmiris’ inalienable birth right, the right to self-determination. They said that January 5 should jolt the conscience of the UN and the world who failed the fettered and defenceless people of occupied Kashmir and it was because of their apathy that India felt emboldened to kill and oppress the Kashmiris.
The Institute of Peace and Development, an international organization active for the peace, human rights and religious harmony, in a statement on the occasion of the Kashmiris’ Right to Self-Determination Day said there is no question of peace, development and security in South Asia without giving the right to self-determination to Kashmiris. It said that Kashmir and Palestine are such simmering flames that there is no other way to peace without their peaceful and just solution.
Hurriyat leader and Vice Chairman of Friends of Kashmir International, Abdul Hameed Lone, in a letter addressed to the UN Secretary General, said Jammu and Kashmir is a UN-recongized disputed territory. He called for the intervention by the United Nations Security Council to ensure early peaceful settlement of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with its relevant resolutions.