- Pakistan ready to play its part for peace and stability in Afghanistan: Fatemi
NEW YORK, December 7: Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Syed Tariq Fatemi on Wednesday said, “Pakistan expects the United Nations to play its role in ensuring peace and stability in the region, especially in the resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute.”He expressed these views during his meetings with Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson, Under Secretary General for Political Affairs, Jeffery Feltman and the Secretary General-designate Antonio Guterres at UN Headquarters, the Foreign Office said.
He was accompanied in all these meetings by Pakistan’s permanent representative to UN, Ambassador Dr. Maleeha Lodhi. In his meetings, Taqriq Fatemi reiterated Pakistan’s commitment to multilateralism.
He also briefed them about continued human rights excesses being committed by Indian occupation forces on the Kashmiri people.
“Efforts to quash a popular, peaceful, spontaneous and indigenous uprising in IOK had led to the killing of over a hundred people, injuries to thousands with over six hundred blinded by the brutal use of pellet guns,” he said.
“To divert international attention from the atrocities, Indian forces had also stepped up ceasefire violations on the Line of Control and the Working Boundary. A particularly deplorable aspect of this escalation was the deliberate targeting of civilians,” he added.
“India had also closed the doors on any bilateral engagement. In this situation, the UN had a moral responsibility to call for ending human rights violations in IOK, play its role in resolution of this long festering dispute and help in immediately de-escalating tensions,” he said.-DNA
