India Demands Pakistan Withdraw from Kashmir and Cease Terrorism Justifications
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Synopsis
India has urged Pakistan to abandon its claims over Jammu and Kashmir and stop endorsing terrorism, emphasizing that the territory is an integral part of India. Permanent Representative P. Harish stated that Pakistan's illegal occupation must end and referenced Security Council Resolution 47 that mandates its withdrawal.
Key Takeaways
- India demands Pakistan vacate Jammu and Kashmir.
- Pakistan's claims and terrorism justifications rejected.
- Resolution 47 calls for Pakistan's withdrawal.
- Jammu and Kashmir is integral to India.
- India dismisses UNMOGIP's relevance.
United Nations, March 25 (NationPress) India has urged Pakistan to vacate the illegally occupied territory in Jammu and Kashmir and to cease its justifications for state-sponsored terrorism.
In response to Pakistan's persistent attempts to raise the Kashmir issue in the Security Council, India’s Permanent Representative P. Harish stated on Monday, “Such repeated references neither validate their illegal claims nor justify their state-sponsored cross-border terrorism.”
“Pakistan continues to illegally occupy the territory of Jammu and Kashmir, which it must vacate,” he emphasized, adding, “This action would align with Security Council Resolution 47, adopted on April 21, 1948, which mandates Pakistan to withdraw its forces and infiltrators from Kashmir.”
“Jammu and Kashmir was, is, and will always be an integral part of India,” Harish affirmed.
He further advised Pakistan not to divert the focus of this forum to promote its parochial and divisive agenda.
Earlier, during a discussion on the contemporary challenges to peacekeeping, Syed Tariq Fatemi, Pakistan’s junior foreign affairs minister, asserted that the Council should enforce its resolution regarding a plebiscite for Kashmir.
However, that resolution explicitly called for Pakistan to “secure the withdrawal from the State of Jammu and Kashmir of tribesmen and Pakistani nationals not normally resident therein who have entered the State for the purpose of fighting.” The resolution also instructed Pakistan to halt support for militants and infiltration, mandating that Islamabad “prevent any intrusion into the State by such elements and any provision of material support to those engaged in conflict there.”
A plebiscite could not be conducted when the Council resolution was passed because Pakistan undermined it by refusing to comply with the prerequisite of its withdrawal from Kashmir. India argues that a plebiscite is now irrelevant as the people of Kashmir have expressed their loyalty to India through electoral participation and by choosing their own leaders.
Fatemi referenced the UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP), established in 1949 to oversee the ceasefire along the Line of Control. India is largely dismissive of UNMOGIP’s role, viewing it as an outdated mechanism made irrelevant by the 1972 Shimla agreement between the two nations, which deemed the Kashmir dispute a bilateral issue with no involvement from third parties. India has expelled UNMOGIP from its government-provided premises in New Delhi.
