HABIB YOUSAFZAI THE CHAIRMAN KASHMIR DIASPORA ALLIANCE
STRONGLY CONDEMNS THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT’S FAILURE TO IMPLEMENT THE
PROMISE MADE TO THE UN, PAKISTAN, AND THE KASHMIRIS FOR PLEBISCITE
HABIB YOUSAFZAI THE CHAIRMAN
KASHMIR DIASPORA ALLIANCE
STRONGLY CONDEMNS THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT’S FAILURE TO IMPLEMENT THE
PROMISE MADE TO THE UN, PAKISTAN, AND THE KASHMIRIS FOR
PLEBISCITE
ASSALAM-O-ALAIKUM!
India
rejects Pak call for Kashmir plebiscite
"Jammu
and Kashmir is an integrated part and parcel of India since independence.
Democratically elections are held in the state.
India
Thursday rejected Pakistan's call for plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir,
asserting that the state is an integral part of the country and its citizens
have chosen a democratically-elected government. "Pakistan must know that
this platform is the Inter-Parliamentary Union platform and a forum where the
2030 development agenda is discussed," Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan
told PTI here yesterday. Her remarks came a day after Pakistan National
Assembly's Acting Speaker Murtaza Javed Abbasi in his speech to the Fourth
World Conference of Speakers said that "it is time" to enable the
people of Jammu and Kashmir to exercise their right to self-determination.
Mahajan strongly rejected Pakistan's move to raise the issue of Kashmir on a
platform focused on the global development agenda, saying the remarks are
"totally irrelevant" and Islamabad must concentrate on development.
"Jammu and Kashmir is an integrated part and parcel of India since
independence. Democratically elections are held in the state," she said.
"Pakistan should keep in mind that elections take place in Jammu and
Kashmir and its people participate in a democratic process to elect their state
government. There is an elected government there. What can be more democratic
than this," she said, rejecting Pakistan's call for a plebiscite.
"Why Pakistan is raising the issue in each platform. This is not the
platform for it, this is not an issue now. The agenda here is the 2030
sustainable development goals. There is no relevancy at all (for raising
Kashmir) here," she said. She said Pakistan is trying to make an issue out
of a non-issue by bringing up Kashmir at every platform of the UN.
"They are ignoring the realities on the ground. This (Kashmir) is
not an issue for the UN...They are making a non-issue an issue but they will
not get success," she said. Mahajan said elections have been held in the
state for the past many years. She emphasized that the state had witnessed the
highest voter turnout in over two decades in the assembly elections last year,
with an estimated 66 per cent electorate voting in 20 constituencies. She also
pointed out that the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference in
Islamabad was cancelled because Pakistan had not invited the Jammu and Kashmir
Legislative Speaker, which she said "is against the rules" of the
body. "They are not focused on development. They are not thinking about
their citizens and how development should take place in Pakistan. But instead
every now and then they try to raise only one issue. They don't have the right
thinking," Mahajan said. If you disagree with India’s stand please
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