ISLAMABAD, August 7: The joint parliamentary session, which was convened to debate the country’s future course of action in the wake of India scrapping occupied Kashmir’s special status, passed on Wednesday a resolution condemning New Delhi’s “unilateral move”.
The resolution was presented by Kashmir Committee Chairman Syed Fakhar Imam and was passed unanimously.
The resolution condemns India’s “illegal, unilateral, reckless and coercive attempt to alter the disputed status of Indian occupied Kashmir as enshrined in the UNSC resolutions”. The resolution condemned the deployment of additional troops in the IOK, and firing along the Line of Control and shelling along the Line of Control, and the use of cluster bombs by Indian forces in Azad Kashmir. It stressed that Jammu and Kashmir is an internationally recognized dispute on the agenda of the United Nations Security Council and categorically stated that these illegal measures cannot change the disputed status of Jammu and Kashmir. It opposed Indian plans to alter the demographic composition of IOK, as well as take away protective, inherent and established rights of Jammu and Kashmir to citizenship, permanent residence, acquisition of property, employment and education as provided under the repealed article 35-A of the Indian constitution and contrary to UNSC resolutions on the Jammu and Kashmir dispute and international humanitarian law. Agencies
