India has dismissed Pakistan\u2019s attempt to inject Kashmir into a discussion of the workings of the Security Council as an undignified misuse of the General Assembly forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pratik Mathur, a minister at India\u2019s UN mission, reacting to Pakistan bringing up Kashmir, said that it \u201cmisused this forum to spread baseless and deceitful narratives, which is not a surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI will not dignify these remarks with any response just to save valuable time of this august body,\u201d he added witheringly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mathur, who did not name Pakistan and referred to it as \u201cone delegation\u201d was reacting to Pakistan\u2019s Permanent Representative Munir Akram\u2019s suggestion to set up a Security Council body to monitor the implementation of its resolutions on Kashmir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the target of his condescending dismissal was clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Regardless of the topic under discussion or its relevance, Pakistan consistently brings up Kashmir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While India does directly take on Pakistan by naming it by exercising its formal right of reply on major issues, New Delhi does not name it on other occasions like on Tuesday to deprive Islamabad of an opportunity to prolong the issue, which is ignored by almost all the other 192 members of the UN, but at the same time making a clear rebuttal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since it was not named, Pakistan did not get a right to reply when it could amplify its statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because Kashmir does not get traction at the UN, Akram repeatedly tries to link it to Palestine \u2013 as he did on Tuesday \u2013 but with no effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, in last year\u2019s high-level session of the General Assembly, only one country besides Pakistan even mentioned Kashmir \u2013 which means 191 nations ignored it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even that was an anodyne remark made in the passing by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who only said that resolving the dispute through dialogue by India and Pakistan \u201cwill pave the way for regional peace, stability and prosperity in South Asia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pakistan\u2019s former Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has himself pathetically admitted Islamabad\u2019s failure to get support for its cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe face a particularly uphill task to try and get Kashmir onto the centre of the agenda at the United Nations,\u201d he said at a news conference here last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India \u201cstrongly object vociferously object and they perpetuate a post facto narrative\u201d to shut out Kashmir, he lamented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India maintains that Kashmir and all disputes between the neighbours are bilateral matters under the 1972 Simla Agreement signed by Bilawal\u2019s grandfather Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, who was then Pakistan\u2019s President, and India\u2019s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moreover, when harping on the implementation of the Security Council resolution on plebiscite Kashmir, Islamabad ignores a key element that required it to first withdraw from all areas of Kashmir it occupied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Security Council Resolution 47 adopted on April 21, 1948, requires the Pakistani government first to secure the withdrawal from the State of Jammu and Kashmir of tribesmen and Pakistani nationals not normally resident therein who have entered the State for the purpose of fighting and to prevent any intrusion into the State of such elements and any furnishing of material aid to those fighting in the State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The \u201ctribesmen\u201d referred to in the resolution are Pakistani soldiers sent in disguised as tribesmen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That resolution also requires Islamabad to not fund or arm terrorists who continue attacks in Kashmir, which element Pakistan ignores. AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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