Bilawal Bhutto urges UNSC to act on Kashmir

Staff Writer

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari wrote a letter to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) President Michel Biang of Gabon this week about the “alarming” situation in Indian-occupied Kashmir.

Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Munir Akram later met the president and delivered him the FM’s letter.

The minister urged the Security Council and the secretary-general, in his letter, to make concerted efforts to help bring about a peaceful settlement of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute in accordance with the UNSC resolutions and the wishes of the Kashmiri people, according to a press release issued by the Pakistan mission to the UN.

The ambassador described India’s occupation of IIOJK on Wednesday as “worst manifestation of modern-day colonialism.”

Akram pointed out that since 1946, 80 former colonies have gained independence, but there are still people who are denied the right to self-determination. “Most prominently,” he stressed, “the people of occupied Jammu & Kashmir and Palestine.”