ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Kashmir Committee Shehryar Khan Afridi has urged the United Nations to break its mysterious silence and play its role for settlement of lingering disputes posing threat of triggering conflicts and wars.

Speaking at a seminar on the role of the United Nations and the Kashmir dispute held to observe the 75th United Nations Foundation Day on Saturday, Mr Afridi said that UN’s failure had led to outbreak of a war between Azerbaijan and Armenia and this war may engulf the entire region as there were allegations and counter allegations of involvement of regional countries.

“Since the world is no more unipolar, it’s about time that the UN break its silence over disputes and take move to resolve disputes. If the UN fails to deliver, its fate would be no different than the League of Nations,” he said and warned that the failure of League of Nations had led to World War II.

“It seems that the United Nations has forgotten what it was founded for. The UN has lost its cause of bringing peace to the world while making it sure that there’s no lingering conflict,” he said.

“Now the UN has to realise who real enemy of humanity is. Why is FATF forgetting the contribution of Pakistan in maintaining world peace, given Pakistan is the biggest contributor of peace in peacekeeping missions.”

He said Pakistan had been hosting ... Afghan refugees for 40 years and now, had been treating them as their own. While on the other hand India is heading towards creating a huge refugee influx / crisis, declaring majority of Muslim Indians as non-citizens while launching Ghar Wapsi Programme.

He said the developed nations would be responsible for any nuclear clash that would happen between India and Pakistan because that was what both states are heading towards.

Mr Afridi said Pakistanis needed to unite against Indian forces as the RAW and Modi had been conspiring against Pakistan, trying to exploit fault lines. He urged the nation to show unwavering faith when it came to Kashmir and fighting for Kashmiris’ right of self-determination.

He said that India would not see the dawn of black day in the coming year, Kashmiris would get justice from international bodies because Prime Minister Imran Khan and his team is ready to go to every extent to liberate Kashmir from Indian rule.

Published in Dawn, October 25th, 2020