UNITED NATIONS, April 5: Dismissing India’s accusations of Pakistan’s involvement in the terrorist activities in the disputed Kashmir territory, Pakistan on Friday asked India to allow an independent UN inquiry into the latest incident of massacre.
Exercising right of reply in the UN Security Council meeting following charges by the Indian representative accusing Pakistan of involvement in the terrorist incident Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Munir Akram said the latest massacre be investigated by an organization such as Amnesty International, and asked the Indian representative if he would accept an independent United Nations inquiry.
“If India was convinced that external forces were responsible for the massacre, it should accept that proposal,” he insisted.
Pakistan’s chief delegate asserted that the United Nations had recognized Jammu and Kashmir as disputed territory and the Security Council had called for a United Nations-supervized plebiscite for the people of Jammu and Kashmir, so that they could exercise their right to self-determination, “something which remained to be implemented.”
Saying that the people of Jammu and Kashmir and the people of Pakistan asked the Council to adopt a standard which was uniform and did not discriminate against them Mr Akram said, “the people of Jammu and Kashmir had waited for their right to self- determination for 50 years under Indian occupation. There was one Indian soldier for every four Kashmiri males.”
Referring to the Indian representatives’ reference to an incident in the Indian-occupied Kashmir he noted that Pakistan had vigorously condemned that terrorist incident.
“As usual, India had held one country responsible for that situation asserting that was a case of the pot calling the kettle black.”
“In such situations it was always better to resort to impartial inquiries before making allegations to a member state, because such allegations could raise tensions and threaten international peace and security,” Mr Akram said.
