ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday said the Kashmir dispute had an international recognition and India, calling it an internal matter, was making a “violation of UN Security Council resolution”.
“Kashmir is a disputed matter with numerous UNSC resolutions outstanding on its agenda that reiterate the call for plebiscite,” the Foreign Office Spokesman said here at a weekly press briefing.
The statement came in response to the remarks by Indian Ministry of External Affairs’ spokesman Vikas Swarup saying that Pakistan should refrain from issuing statements on the recent unrest in India-held Kashmir and stop interfering in the “internal affairs of its neighbours”.
Spokesman Nafees Zakaria said the international community recognized the Kashmiris’ movement for self-determination and it were the Indian security forces in fact who were indulging in the state-terrorism in Occupied Kashmir.
“They are terrorizing the people which is condemnable and even targeting the ambulances and hospitals to deny treatment to Kashmiris,” he said.
He said the indigenous movement of Kashmiris was for their self-determination and was a resistance against the Indian occupation of their territory.
He said nothing could deter Kashmiris’ resolve to continue their struggle.
“Indian efforts to project Kashmiris movement as terrorism through baseless accusations cannot succeed,” he said.
The Spokesman said Pakistan had briefed the representatives of P5, European Union and OIC countries on the state of human rights violations by India in held Kashmir.
To a question on how Pakistan and India could resolve the Kashmir dispute, he said Pakistan believed that dialogue was the best option.
He mentioned that despite several wars fought over Kashmir, the dispute could not be resolved and recalled a statement by U.S President Bill Clinton terming Kashmir a nuclear flashpoint of South Asia.
“Pakistan is ready for dialogue and the international community should urge upon India to come to the dialogue table,” he said.
