Islamabad: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has nominated 22 members of parliament to tour world capitals as his special envoys to highlight “brutalities” by Indian forces in Indian Kashmir.
“I have decided to send these parliamentarians to fight the case of Kashmir in different parts of the world,” the prime minister said in a statement issued by his office here Saturday.
The prime minister said he himself would take up the issue in his address to the UN General Assembly next month to “shake the collective conscience” of the international community on the “bloodshed” in Kashmir.
He said he would remind the United Nations of its promise regarding self-determination rights to the Kashmiri people.
“We will also make it clear that it was India that approached the United Nations several decades back on Kashmir dispute, but now it is not fulfilling its promise.”
The prime minister said the Kashmir dispute “is the most persistent failure of the United Nations and the world body must establish its relevance.”
“Generation after generation of Kashmiris has seen only broken pledges and ruthless oppression,” Sharif said, emphasising that this anniversary of the UN ought to be a catalyst, spurring the world body into action.
Foreign Office spokesperson Nafees Zakaria, addressing a seminar here Saturday, said the resilience of the Kashmiris “has foiled all the Indian plans to suppress their just cause.”
Zakaria said the Pakistani nation and all institutions have one voice on the Kashmir issue and the media has made profound contribution in highlighting the “human rights violations in Indian Occupied Kashmir.”
Over the past few weeks, the Foreign Office has arranged briefings for ambassadors of OIC countries, the European Union and five permanent members of UN Security Council on the “grave situation” in Kashmir.
