United Nations had accepted Kashmir as an international dispute: JKPL

In an extraordinary meeting held at Peoples League head office Srinagar, chaired by its vice chairman Mukhtar Ahmad Waza along with General Secretary Mohammad Ashraf Vaid. Jammu Kashmir Peoples League has unanimously decided that they will continue their door to door campaign in order to strengthen the organization from ground level.

While addressing a party meeting Mukhtar Ahmad Waza said that India is not sincere to settle the Kashmir dispute and is using delaying tactics. Waza said that the United Nations had accepted Kashmir as an international dispute and passed resolutions for its solution. “The intransigent stance of India on Kashmir is the main hurdle to resolve the long-pending dispute,” he added. He said that the lingering dispute could only be resolved through implementation of the UN resolutions and India must take concrete steps in this regard. “The people of Kashmir have never accepted the illegal Indian occupation and will continue their struggle to achieve their right to self-determination”, Waza maintained.

Waza urged India to end its policy of oppression in Kashmir and create a conducive atmosphere for tripartite resolution of the Kashmir dispute.

Waza said that the recent disclosures of WikiLeaks about gross human rights violations were not new to the people of Kashmir who themselves were witnessing and bearing various forms of torture being inflicted upon them by the Indian police and troops for the last two decades.

Waza appeals UN, OIC and human rights organizations including Amnesty International and Asia Watch to put pressure on India to stop human right violations and settle the Kashmir dispute.