ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Dr Maleeha Lodhispent a busy day on Tuesday briefing the Security Council president,diplomats and UN officials on the grave situation in Indian-occupiedKashmir following India’s move to abolish Article 370 of its constitution.
The Pakistani envoy went through a tightly laid-out schedule to apprise asmany of her counterparts as possible of the breach by India of UN SecurityCouncil resolutions on Kashmir, with the revocation of the territory’sspecial status that has spawned a regional crisis.
Lodhi met President of the UN Security Council Joanna Wronecka where sheemphasised that the Indian action was “an egregious assault on the dignityof the Kashmiris.”
She called on the Security Council to demand that India halt and reverseits unlawful and destabilising actions; ensure full compliance with UNSecurity Council resolutions; and refrain from any steps that interferewith the settlement of the decades-old Kashmir dispute.
“The tragedy of Kashmir has thus come full circle,” the Pakistani envoytold UNSC President, sources said.