Regional peace to remain elusive unless Kashmir dispute resolved

Islamabad App

Senior Leader of All Parties Hurrayat Conference (APHC) Altaf Hussain Wanni has said that regional peace will remain elusive unless the Kashmir dispute is resolved as per the UN Resolutions. The peaceful solution to the Kashmir dispute is deferential to peace in the region. The world needs to break its silence and must take action to stop oppression and human rights violations in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

Talking to APP here Saturday, the Kashmiri leader said Pakistan is fighting the case of Kashmiris at all international forums. Around 220 million Pakistanis are with their Kashmiri brothers and sisters and Pakistan will not spare any sacrifice for the independence of Kashmir.

It is time for Indian leadership to realize that without Pakistan’s active support, India cannot reach the heights of progress and development that it envisions. India does not have any other space to expend except for through Pakistan. India all trade and energy projects pass through Pakistan. Regional prosperity is in the favour of both countries. Indian leadership needs to come a bit forward to build mutual trust. This must be followed by a solution of the Kashmir dispute, so that peace and stability are based on solid foundations without any conflict to undo the peace.

Meanwhile commenting on the issue, Senior Leader of All Parties Hurrayat Conference (APHC)

Altaf Hussain Wanni told APP that Kashmir dispute is one of the oldest disputes on the agenda of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).

He said that the UN Security Council has passed many resolutions for the resolution of Kashmir issue through free and fairly plebiscite.

Unfortunately, he said, India which himself took the matter to United Nations, did accept the United Nations resolutions as Pakistan did accept and UN as a political guarantor should decide the political will of the people of Kashmir through a free and fair referendum held under the United Nations auspicious.

But unfortunately, when India around 75 years ago started occupation in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), It started calling Kashmir as an integral part of India. And that's why the people of Kashmir started a struggle, against the Indian occupation, and for last 75 years, people of Indian occupied Kashmir having struggling for this right of self- determination, he remarked.

He warned that the Indian government has been subjugating, the Kashmiris’ struggle through armed forces. Pakistan being integral part of the issue, had always supported to the cause of people of Kashmir in their struggle against Indian occupation, he lauded.

“It is because of the Kashmir dispute that Pakistan and India had go through for at least three wars,