As Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif continued his meetings with world leaders on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly session, he handed over a dossier on the situation in the Indian held Kashmir to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Speaking to Pakistani journalists, the prime minister said he had handed over the dossier to the UN secretary-general, adding that the UN chief appeared “deeply moved” when he leafed through the document containing photographs of the brutalities unleashed by Indian security forces that have resulted in 107 deaths and injuries to thousands more, with 150 blinded by deadly pellet guns.
“It seems that the UN chief had not seen those photographs,” he said.
Sharif said the dossier would also be shared with the permanent members of UN Security Council - Britain, China, France, Russia and the US - and Pakistani
diplomats around the world were under instructions to apprise the governments of the human rights violations in Indian-occupied Kashmir. The campaign to expose Indian atrocities on the Kashmiri people would be taken forward, he said.
Pakistan’s UN ambassador, Maleeha Lodhi, who was seated next to the prime minister, said that the dossier was going through a process at the UN before deciding its course of action.
She said that before his meeting with the UN secretary-general on Wednesday, the prime minister had written two letters to him in which he had called for the implementation of UN resolutions on the decades-old Kashmir dispute and the dispatch of a fact-finding mission to Indian occupied Kashmir.
The prime minister, who was responding to reporters’ questions, said he praised the UN chief’s offer of his good offices to resolve the issues between India and Pakistan, but emphasised that the Kashmir resolutions were UN’s own resolutions and that the world has the duty and responsibility to implement its decisions.
“I told him (Ban) that it was in the interest of UN’s credibility to implement its resolutions,” Nawaz said.
“The Kashmiri people have been oppressed for decades by the strong-arm tactics of the Indian occupation forces and it is but natural that they would react ultimately. But India is campaigning to divert attention to the popular uprising in Kashmir by blaming Pakistan. That tactic won’t succeed,” he added.
The prime minister said that he had raised the Kashmir issue in every meeting he had with leaders from around the world attending the 71st session of the UN General Assembly and his message was getting through.
The prime minister dispelled the impression that Pakistan was isolated, as claimed by some quarters, and Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, who was present at the press conference, added that it was not the case. “That is a wrong impression,” Chaudhry said.
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