{"id":186180,"date":"2025-10-22T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=186180"},"modified":"2025-10-22T11:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:09:12","slug":"indias-occupation-of-iiojk-threatens-south-asian-peace-dfp-tells-un-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/10\/22\/indias-occupation-of-iiojk-threatens-south-asian-peace-dfp-tells-un-chief.html","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s occupation of IIOJK threatens South Asian peace, DFP tells UN chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-186181\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/10\/Capture-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"341\" height=\"185\" \/>Islamabad: The Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party has written a letter to the United Nations Secretary General, Mr. Antonio Guterres, warning that India\u2019s continued military occupation of Jammu and Kashmir constitutes a serious and persistent threat to peace and stability in South Asia.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, the letter, signed by DFP Acting President Mehmood Ahmed Saghar, draws the UN\u2019s attention to the observance of the 79th Black Day on October 27, marking seventy-nine years since India\u2019s illegal and forcible occupation of Jammu and Kashmir. The party asserted that India\u2019s claim over the territory lacks any legal, moral, or constitutional legitimacy, as Jammu and Kashmir remains a disputed territory under international law whose final status must be determined through a UN-supervised plebiscite.<\/p>\n<p>The letter noted that India\u2019s massive military presence\u2014now nearing one million troops\u2014has transformed the occupied territory into one of the most militarized regions in the world. It highlighted the Indian government\u2019s ongoing campaign of repression, including arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, torture, and severe restrictions on fundamental freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>The letter condemned India\u2019s use of draconian laws such as the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and the Public Safety Act (PSA) to silence political activists, journalists, and civil society members, stressing that New Delhi continues to employ colonial-era tactics to suppress the Kashmiri people\u2019s legitimate struggle for freedom.<\/p>\n<p>The DFP maintained that India\u2019s defiance of United Nations resolutions, which were mutually agreed upon by both India and Pakistan, has prolonged the dispute and made South Asia a potential nuclear flashpoint. It recalled that the recent Pak-India confrontation earlier this year demonstrated the grave dangers posed by India\u2019s intransigence and the international community\u2019s continued inaction.<\/p>\n<p>The letter urged the UN to uphold its moral and institutional responsibility to facilitate a just and lasting resolution of the Kashmir dispute based on the right to self-determination of the Kashmiri people. \u201cIt is high time,\u201d Saghar emphasized, \u201cthat the United Nations assumes its long-overdue role in holding India accountable for the crimes perpetrated by its forces in occupied Jammu and Kashmir and revives the spirit of the original UN framework to ensure durable peace and justice in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party has written a letter to the United Nations Secretary General, Mr. Antonio Guterres, warning that India\u2019s continued military occupation of Jammu and Kashmir constitutes a serious and persistent threat to peace and stability in South Asia. According to Kashmir Media Service, the letter, signed by DFP Acting &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":186181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-186180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-occupied-jammu-and-kashmir","tag-top-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/10\/Capture-21.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186182,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186180\/revisions\/186182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}