October 28 , 2017
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‘UN resolutions-based Kashmir settlement only pathway to peace’
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NEW YORK: Reaffirming Pakistan’s ‘resolute’ support to Kashmiri people’s struggle for freedom from the illegal Indian occupation, Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi said Friday that a peaceful settlement of the Kashmir dispute was the “only pathway for lasting peace and stability in South Asia.”
“The people of Pakistan are resolute in their abiding commitment and steadfast political, diplomatic and moral support to the legitimate cause of the Kashmiri people,” Lodhi, Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN, said in an interview on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of India’s massive invasion and occupation of Kashmir, marked as ‘Black Day’.
“Every day of brutal Indian occupation is a black day,” she said in a voice charged with emotion.
“The story of Kashmir has been an unremitting tale of pain and suffering, for generations of Kashmiri men, women and children,” the Pakistani envoy said. “For the last 70 years, the people of Jammu and Kashmir have waited for fulfillment of the solemn pledge made to them by several UN Security Council resolutions to exercise their right to self-determination.”
“The Indian occupation had seen the worst form of state oppression, aimed to subdue the spirit of the people of Kashmir, where over 100,000 have become martyrs to the cause of freedom,” she said.
During the ongoing wave of protests, Indian occupation forces deliberately targeted Kashmiri protestors with pellet guns, to maim and blind, as many of them as possible.
“India has thus gained the infamy of committing the first â “mass blinding” in human history,” Ambassador Lodhi said.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk