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No peace in Kashmir unless India stops killings: Munir Akram

GENEVA, Mar 27 (APP): There will be no peace in India and Pakistan unless Indian forces stop killing of innocent Kashmiris, said Munir Akram, Pakistan's Ambassador to United Nations here on Mar. 26. Through " Pakistan's first Right of Reply" on right to self-determination and in response to Indian right of replies, Munir Akram said resolution of Kashmir problem was imperative to restore peace in South Asia. "Do not ignore our proposals, they are true and if peace is to return to South Asia, Kashmir must be at first place," he said urging upon the Commission to seriously consider Pakistan's proposals for restoration of peace. "This is what is at stake here. This Commission should act now to save lives in Kashmir. We have made proposals. Our proposals are true to the conscience of mankind. Do not ignore them," he said. He said the Indian delegation in the Commission had failed to respond to the proposals made by the Pakistani delegation. "What he (Indian delegation) failed to say, was to respond to the proposals made by my delegation to 'humanize' the situation in Kashmir," Munir said. There are over six hundred thousand Indian troops in the territory of Jammu and Kashmir, he apprised the Commission, saying over three hundred thousand troops were in the Kashmir valley only. "Only in Kashmir valley, the Indian troops were almost equal the number of grown men," he regretted. If this territory, Munir said, had exercised self-determination and if these people had decided to join and stay with India, why did India need over half a million troops to control these people and keep them in bondage.

"India should release them, let them be free, withdraw its troops and let the Kashmiris decide where they want to go," he emphasized. He also blamed India for conspiring to dismember Pakistan recalling "its (India's) three aggressions against Pakistan. For the last several months, he maintained, the Indian Prime Minister and the iNDIAN leadership has, day in and day out, threatened war against Pakistan. They have gone on a rampage of killings in Kashmir as well, Munir said calling upon the Commission to ask India to stop killing of innocent Kashmiris through state terrorism. In Pakistan's second right of reply, the ambassador said in a report issued a couple of days ago, Amnesty International noted that the human rights situation in Jammu and Kashmir has been grave for over a decade with dozens of cases of torture, deaths in custody and extra-judicial killings reported every year.

"Currently, the entire leadership of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) is held in preventive detention following their peaceful calls for an election boycott in 1999," he maintained quoting the report. Responding to the claims made by the Indians about terrorism, Munir read out the parts of report issued by FAS, an independent body of US Scientists. Quoting the paper, the report regarding RAW, the Indian Intelligence Agency was published in, he said, "the paper records at least a dozen terrorist activities in Pakistan conducted by the Indian Intelligence Agency." The RAW, he said, according to this Paper, executed a hijacking of an Indian Airliner to Lahore in 1971 which was attributed to the Kashmiris to give a terrorist dimension to the Kashmiri national movement. "Soon the extent of RAW's involvement was made public," Munir said. "They repeat terrorist actions every year through the renegade groups they finance and the GONGOs as well, who come here paid by India, to malign Pakistan. He added they (Indians) tried to repeat same exercise this year as well. "This was a well oiled Intelligence operation of which the Indians were well aware of," Munir concluded.