ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has writtena letter to the President of UN Security Council and the UN SecretaryGeneral urging them to take immediate cognizance of India’s sinister ployof reducing Muslims’ representation in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu andKashmir through unlawful ‘delimitation’ exercise.
According to a foreign ministry statement on Wednesday, the minister urgedthe UN Security Council to remind India that Jammu and Kashmir remains aninternationally recognised dispute and it should refrain from bringingabout any illegal demographic changes in the occupied territory.
Bilawal called for prevailing upon India to let the people of IIOJKdetermine their own future through a free and fair plebiscite under therelevant UN Security Council resolutions.
In the letter, he also underscored India’s gross and widespread humanrights violations in the occupied territory and drew particular attentionto the ongoing Indian efforts to further marginalise, disempower and dividethe beleaguered Kashmiri population.
He added that the move is designed to pave way for installing yet anotherpuppet government in the territory that is pliant to BJP-RSS combine, andpanders to its “Hindutva” ideology.
“Through the sham ‘delimitation’ exercise, it is obvious that India isaiming to speed up the process of demographic changes that it has alreadyset in motion through measures such as doling out millions of domicilecertificates, offering jobs, and putting up land in IOJK for sale tonon-Kashmiris, in complete disregard to the international law and relevantGeneva Conventions,” he said.
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Meanwhile on Wednesday, Indian troops in their fresh act of state terrorismkilled another young Kashmiri in north Bandipora.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the troops shot the youth dead during acordon and search operation in Salinder forest area of the district.
The situation is alarming in the IOJK since India, in an illegal andunilateral action, had stripped the occupied region of its autonomy onAugust 5 2019.
Also today, Bilawal held his first bilateral meeting with Chinese StateCouncilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi virtually where he highlighted thatChina-Pakistan’s all weather friendship has stood the test of time
