“Highlighting the centrality of the right of self-determination and the UNSC resolutions, Ambassador Hashmi referred to the various discussions at the UNSC in August 2019 and then in January 2020. He also referred to the statements of the UN Secretary General urging not to take any steps that could affect the status of Jammu and Kashmir, and underlining the importance of UN Security Council resolutions”.

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Kathmandu: The Embassy of Pakistan in Nepal, August 04, 2023, organized a Seminar on “Kashmiris’ Youm-e-Istehsal”.

The programme was attended by Nepal’s distinguished writers, widely acclaimed media persons, and a galaxy of Pakistani diaspora residing in Kathmandu.

The Embassy press release issued today, August 04, 2023, adds that the attendees at the seminar were some political analysts/commentators and members of civil society.

Speaking at the Talk Programme, the newly appointed Ambassador of Pakistan in Nepal, Abrar H Hashmi recollected some important developments and international global reactions to India’s illegal action of 5 August 2019 and alarming intensification of the human rights violations in that disputed territory thereafter.

The Pakistani envoy particularly raised, to what he termed, the ‘demographic apartheid’ of the people of India’s Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) by refusing a majority of local(s) by sidelining the local population and allowing the influx of the settlers from outside in IIOJK.

Ambassador Hashmi warned that the present Indian dispensation was hoodwinking following a dangerous path by suppressing the majority by staging ‘false flag operations’ for inter alia the electoral gains.

Highlighting the centrality of the right of self-determination and the UNSC resolutions, Ambassador Hashmi referred to the various discussions at the UNSC in August 2019 and then in January 2020. He also referred to the statements of the UN Secretary General urging not to take any steps that could affect the status of Jammu and Kashmir, and underlining the importance of UN Security Council resolutions.

The attending participants at the Seminar underlined the grave human rights violations being committed by the Indian forces in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) forces.

Ambassador Hashmi highlighted the gravity and scale of human rights violations by the Indian forces and referred to their widespread international condemnation especially by the UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights, EU, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the 57 member conglomerate of the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC).

In the open house discussion session that followed, the participants urged a resolution of the dispute in accordance with the wishes of the people of Jammu Kashmir and UNSC resolutions. They also stressed the urgency to resolve the dispute which had been the biggest challenge to the regional peace and security, now for decades.

They said that the international community had an important responsibility to defend and ensure the rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir including their right of self-determination.

A one-minute silence was observed in honor of the martyrs of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

The one-day seminar went well.