Pakistan lashed out at India for backtracking from its obligations under the UN Security Council resolutions guaranteeing the right of self-determination to the people of Jammu and Kashmir, arguing that its settler-colonial project in the disputed territory also flagrantly violated international law. “Jammu and Kashmir is not, and has never been, an integral part of India,” Pakistani delegate Asif Khan told the UN General Assembly’s Special Political and Decolonization Committee on Monday. He was exercising his right of reply to the Indian delegate, N.K. Premachandran, for claiming that Kashmir was, and “will always remain an integral and inalienable part of India.” Premachandran, who is an MP, also called Pakistan a “fountainhead of terror” and went on to comment on its internal matters. Asif Khan, who is a minister at the Pakistan Mission to the UN, rejected the Indian allegation and branded India as “the world’s largest producer of disinformation.” Kashmir, he said, is an internationally recognized disputed territory whose final status is to be determined through a free and impartial plebiscite under the UN auspices. “Let me reiterate that the UN Declaration of 1960 decrees that ‘all peoples’ under alien subjugation have the right to self-determination,” he said, adding that … Continue reading At UN, Pakistan slams India for flouting Kashmir plebiscite obligation