ISLAMABAD Sept 9: The special parliamentary committee on Kashmir has demanded that India should demolish the fence forthwith it had erected along the Line of Control (LoC).
The demand was made in a unanimous resolution adopted at a committee meeting, with Hamid Nasir Chattha in the chair, here on Thursday. It advised the Indian government to dismantle the fence before Kashmiris on both sides of the LoC pull it down.
The resolution has ruled out the possibility of recognition of the LoC as the international border between Pakistan and India. It condemned Indian government for misunderstanding and misusing Pakistan's gesture of unilateral cease fire along the LoC to complete its illegal three-layered electrified fencing.
The committee urged India to demolish the illegal barbed wire fencing to prevent further alienation and unrest among the people of Jammu and Kashmir. The committee is of the view that India has violated the Shimla agreement by altering the LoC unilaterally after occupying Siachin and other areas along the LoC including Chor Batla.
The Kashmir committee urged the government of Pakistan to have a pro-active approach in the light of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) judgment on Israel's illegal wall-building. The resolution called upon Islamabad to actively pursue the dispatch of a UN fact-finding mission on the barbed wire fencing.
