New York: Pakistan has raised the Kashmir issue yet again at the UN
Security Council, trying to twin it with the Palestinian problem.
At a Council meeting on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict on
Tuesday, Pakistan's Permanent Representative Maleeha Lodhi said:
"Crimes continue to be perpetrated in Palestine and Indian occupied
Jammu and Kashmir, two of the oldest disputes on the agenda of this
Council."
The Geneva Conventions on protection of civilians during conflict "are
violated, respect for human life violated, and civilians are used as
human shields in occupied territories", she said.
India considers Kashmir an integral part of the country and the
developments there an internal matter.
India has tended more often to ignore the Pakistani taunts at the UN as
no other country pays any attention to them.
As India's Permanent Representative Syed Akbaruddin has pointed out
in the past, in the 193-member UN, only Pakistan brings up Kashmir
repeatedly and none of the other 192 members takes notice.
India maintains that according to the 1972 Shimla agreement between
then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was
then the President of Pakistan, the dispute over Kashmir is a bilateral
issue and the two countries should directly deal with it. – IANS
