Islamabad September 26 (Online): Islamabad, in a strongly worded rebuke to the Indian response following Prime Minister Imran Khan’s speech at the UNGA, categorically stated that Jammu and Kashmir never was and will never be a part of India, adding that India has no claim over the region other than that of a “military occupier”.
Earlier on Saturday, India had responded to the Prime Minister’s address to UNGA calling it “full of lies, misinformation and warmongering”, as reported in Hindustan Times. The Indian delegate had also walked out while the premier’s pre-recorded UNGA speech was aired.
In a rebuttal to the Indian statement. Pakistani representative said that Indian reply was “ another shameful attempt to deflect attention away from the real issues”.
The representative said that the state of Jammu and Kashmir was an internationally recognized disputed territory as decreed by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
“The final disposition of the state will be made in accordance with the will of the people expressed through democratic methods of a free and impartial plebiscite under the auspices of the UN.”
He said that the indigenous Kashmiri freedom struggle seeks to realize the implementation of the UNSC resolutions in exercise of their inalienable right to self-determination.
“The Kashmiris have a legitimate right to resist occupation by all means at their disposal. This just struggle cannot be denigrated or described as terrorism. It the occupying state that is guilty of terrorism against the occupied people.
“Like all oppressors India continues to believe it can subdue the legitimate Kashmiri resistance through brute force. In its playbook, the alternative to suppression is even more suppression. But like all colonial oppressors of the past, India will fail in its strategy of occupation and oppression.
“Kashmir will be free one day. This is not only a lesson of history, it is also an imperative of justice,” he said.
