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India Slams Pak For Repeatedly Raising Kashmir Issue At UN:- Pakistan has been slammed by India at the UN for repeatedly raising the Kashmir issue on platforms where it has not been part of the agenda. It said that the neighboring country has ventured to plough a “lonely furrow contrary to the onward march of history”.
India’s response comes after Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Maleeha Lodhi, said that without resolution of the “long festering dispute” of Jammu and Kashmir, the decolonization agenda of the UN will “remain incomplete.”
During a debate on decolonization in the fourth committee of the UN General Assembly, Pakistan raised the issue.
Minister at the Permanent Mission of India to the UN, Srinivas Prasad said, India “rejects the efforts of the delegation of Pakistan to bring issues which have never been on the agenda of this Committee ever in its history.”
He said that India considered it as a diversion from the agenda, and as a distraction not worthy of a response.
“Even as all those who have taken the floor have focused on issues of Non Self-Governing Territories, a solitary member State, as usual, has ventured to plough a lonely furrow contrary to the onward march of history,” said the Indian diplomat.
However, Kashmir remained a “dispute under any definition”, and for the UN and the parties to work to resolve it, there was an “explicit obligation”, said Pakistan, exercising its right to reply.
Earlier, Lodhi continued with her anti-tirade at the UN.
“Contrary to Indian claims, Jammu and Kashmir never was and never can be an integral part of India. It is disputed territory, the final status of which has yet to be determined in accordance with several resolutions of the UN Security Council,” she said.
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