Pakistan raises Kashmir issue in Washington

Published February 8, 2015
Pakistan's Ambassador to the US Jalil Abbas Jilani.—AFP/File
Pakistan's Ambassador to the US Jalil Abbas Jilani.—AFP/File

WASHINGTON: Pakistan raised the Kashmir issue in the US capital this weekend, urging India to work with it for resolving the long-standing dispute.

At a seminar at the Pakistan Embassy here, speakers warned India against changing the special constitutional status of the disputed territory and attempts to alter its demographics could have dangerous consequences. The seminar was the first Kashmir Solidarity Day event organised at the embassy in many years.

“The UN Security Council resolutions have the legitimacy of the international contract, accepted by both India and Pakistan before the international community,” said Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States Jalil Abbas Jilani.

He said that denying the people of Kashmir what had been pledged to them by the United Nations would be a violation of this international contract.

Azad Jammu and Kashmir Minister for Electricity Raja Faisal Rathore asked the international community to alleviate the plight of the Kashmiri people suffering at the hands of Indian occupation forces.

Published in Dawn, February 8th, 2015

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