February 5, 2002	Tuesday	Ziqa’ad 21, 1422

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ISLAMABAD, Feb 4: The international community should exert pressure on India to end human rights violations in the occupied Kashmir, the national organizer of the Qaumi Jamhoori Party (QJP), Omar Asghar Khan, said on Monday.

In a statement issued on Monday, he said the Kashmiri people should be given the right to self-determination.

He said both India and Pakistan alongwith representatives of the Kashmiri people should open a dialogue so that the issue was resolved in accordance with the wishes of the Kashmiri people and the UN resolutions.

Mr Khan said both India and Pakistan should divert their resources for poverty reduction, social development and guaranteeing socio-economic rights to the people.

Meanwhile, the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman, Imran Khan, said the UN should be revamped so that it did not merely act as a foreign policy tool of the western states, but, implemented its charter without prejudice.

He said the world was witnessing a dangerous trend whereby the sole super power was acting as the judge, jury and the executioner in world conflicts.

In a message on Kashmir Solidarity Day, Imran Khan called for urgent resolution of the Kashmir dispute without which, he said, the subcontinent would remain on the brink of a major catastrophe. “Kashmir is not a territorial dispute but relates to the fundamental right to self-determination,” he stressed.

The PTI chief said terrorism in Kashmir was perpetuated by the Indian occupation forces. “Terror is a weapon of the powerful and not the weak.

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