Jammu and Kashmir is UN-acknowledged disputed territory: Pakistan

United Nations: At the United Nations, Pakistan has said that Jammu and Kashmir is defined as a disputed territory on the UN maps and it is not an integral part of India.

This was stated by the Pakistani delegate, Naeem Sabir Khan, while reacting to the claims by the Indian delegate, Nitish Birdi, that the territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh will always remain an integral part of India.

Naeem Sabir Khan, a counsellor in the Pakistan Mission to the UN, speaking at the General Assembly’s Fourth Committee, which deals with Special Political and Decolonization issues said multiple resolutions of the United Nations Security Council define Jammu and Kashmir as a ‘disputed territory’.

He said that the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples reaffirmed the right to self-determination of all people, not just some people.

“The right is also enshrined in the first article of the United Nations Charter, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,” the Pakistani delegate said.

Highlighting the Indian state-sponsored terrorism, Naeem Sabir Khan said it is a franchise that has gone from regional to global, with Pakistan, along with other countries, facing its menace.

Citing an Amnesty International report titled “Weaponizing counter-terrorism,” the Pakistani delegate said that India is using financial and money-laundering laws to target human rights defenders and civil society. He said, today, more than 200 million Muslim, Christian and other minorities face blatant discrimination in India. Sabir Khan maintained that the terrifying rise in Islamophobia within India is a distressing consequence of the blind pursuit by the BJP-RSS government of the majoritarian ‘Hindutva’ agenda and its explicit support for anti-Islam and anti-Muslim rhetoric. “Today, no minority is safe in India,” he added.