Pakistan urges UN to help secure Kashmiris’ self-determination right
United Nations: Pakistan has urged the international community to help in securing the right of self-determination for the Kashmiri people through a UN-sponsored plebiscite, as proposed by the UN Security Council resolutions.
According to Kashmir Media Service, speaking at the General Assembly’s Third Committee, which deals with social, humanitarian and cultural matters, Ambassador Usman Jadoon, deputy permanent representative of Pakistan to the UN, also called on the world to end human rights violations in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
At the same time, Ambassador Usman Jadoon spoke of the dire situation occupied Palestine where he said the people remain deprived of their basic human rights, including the right to self-determination. “The expansion of illegal settlements, the use of excessive force by the Israeli occupation forces, and the blockade of Gaza are serious violations that demand immediate attention from the international community,” the Pakistan envoy said. “The crimes against humanity against the Palestinian people in the ongoing escalation must end”, he said.
In IIOJK, Ambassador Jadoon said the use of excessive force, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions, and restrictions on freedom of expression have been documented in the reports of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and of over two dozen special mechanisms of the Human Rights Council. These violations, he said, intensified since India’s unilateral and illegal measures of 5 August 2019 designed to impose its ominous final solution on Jammu and Kashmir.
