Pakistan urges UNSC to implement Kashmir resolutions
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Pakistan urges UNSC to implement Kashmir resolutions
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Pakistan on Friday called upon the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to exercise its legal and moral authority for implementation of its resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir dispute guaranteeing an inalienable right to self-determination.
As the country observed annual Kashmir Solidarity Day, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi approached the UNSC President and the UN Secretary General to apprise them of India’s continuing gross and systematic violations of human rights in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
As part of Pakistan’s sustained diplomatic outreach, he also apprised them of India’s unlawful campaign to colonize the occupied territory, and its belligerent and hostile actions against Pakistan, including persistent ceasefire violations, which posed a threat to peace and security.
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi penned a letter to the president of the UNSC and the UN Secretary General to apprise them of the situation in Indian-occupied Kashmir. PID/File
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has written a letter to the president of the UN Security Council and the UN secretary general to apprise them of the continuing grave situation in Indian-occupied Kashmir (IoK) and India s hostile actions against Pakistan including ceasefire violations, the Foreign Office (FO) said on Friday.
In a statement coinciding with the Kashmir Solidarity Day being observed across Pakistan today, the FO said Qureshi had drawn the UN s attention to India’s continuing gross and systematic violations of human rights in [IoK], India’s unlawful campaign to colonise the occupied territory; and India’s belligerent and hostile actions against Pakistan, including persistent ceasefire violations, which pose a threat to peace and security .
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Entire Pakistani nation stands with Kashmiris: FM Qureshi
February 5, 2021
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that the entire Pakistani nation stands with Kashmiri brethren in their valiant struggle to secure their inalienable right to self-determination.
In his message, the foreign minister said that as Kashmir Solidarity Day is being observed on February 5, we reaffirm our unflinching solidarity with the Kashmiris in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
The foreign minister said that this solidarity will continue until the Kashmiris achieve their inalienable right to self-determination as enshrined in the UN Charter and relevant UN Security Council Resolutions.
Due to the indiscriminate firing of occupation forces three women among four civilians sustained injuries, says FO
Pakistan on Tuesday summoned a senior Indian diplomat to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to register “strong protest” over ceasefire violations by its forces along the Line of Control (LoC).
The Foreign Office said in a statement that on February 2 (Tuesday) four innocent civilians including three women sustained injuries after Indian occupation forces targeted civilian population across the de facto border.
“Due to the indiscriminate and unprovoked firing by the Indian occupation forces in Hotspring and Jandrot sectors of the LoC on February 2, 30-year-old Zubina Bukhari w/o Faizan Shah, resident of Tahi Mohra village; 17-year-old Rida Tahir d/o Bahsarat Shah, resident of Tahi Mohra village; 16 years old Ameen Ali s/o Basharat Shah, resident of Tahi Mohra village, and 42-year-old Saleema Begum w/o Muhammad Yaqoob resident of Batali village sustained serious inj