WASHINGTON: Denouncing India for organizing celebration of its Republic Day in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu Kashmir (IIOJK), Ghulam Nabi Fai, a prominent Kashmiri leader has said that India has “no moral, legal, or constitutional authority” to do so on a territory which is not its integral part.
In a statement issued here, he also reminded New Delhi and the world that the 1948 UNSC resolution called for creating conditions for a plebiscite so that the people of Jammu and Kashmir could decide for themselves whether they wanted to be a part of India or join Pakistan.
Dr Fai, Secretary General of the World Kashmir Awareness Forum, an advocacy organization, also stated that India’s false claim regarding Kashmir being its integral part was the main cause of continued death, destruction, pain, devastation, and suffering of the people of Kashmir.
New Delhi has No Right to Hold its Republic Day Celebration: Kashmiri Leader
He said that there are shocking human rights violations, including over 100,000 killings in the last 3 decades alone, rape, torture, mutilations, plunder, arson, arbitrary detentions, abductions, and draconian punishment for the exercise of peaceful political dissent: and contempt for global law and binding self-determination resolutions of the UNSC.
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He said that India’s war crimes in Occupied Kashmir are notorious, adding soldiers are killing civilians with impunity. “Rape and torture are routinely practice in the IIOJK but never punished” he remarked.
Fai said that the only solution to the problem lies in permitting the people of Kashmir to exercise their unrestricted right to self-determination to decide their destiny – a pledge given to them by the international community some 77 years ago.
He said If the Kashmir question was addressed, much of the hostility between Pakistan and India would dissolve and “the region would not be living on the edge of a nuclear holocaust.”
