From: "Gulpari Nazish Mehsud" <gulpari.mehsud@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 11, 2013 2:57 AM
Subject: Pakistani Press Indian Speech At UN Draws Sharp Rebuke From Kashmiris
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Video| Indian Speech At UN Draws Sharp Rebuke From Kashmiris
SPECIAL REPORT | 7 October 2013
#YFK Youth Forum For Kashmir
http://j.mp/YFKOfficial
The chairman of Pakistan's largest pro-Kashmir lobbying group criticized the speech delivered by Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh at the United Nations and took 'exception' to Indian foreign minister's interview to Voice of America radio service where the Indian diplomat tried to link Kashmiri resistance against Indian occupation to Pakistani intelligence service the ISI.
In a video message posted online in Urdu and English, Sardar Asad Ullah Khan, Chairman Youth Forum for Kashmir #YFK accused the Indian politician of 'malafide' intentions.
[Click here for the English version, and here for the Urdu version of the video statement.]
Khan said the Indian prime minister's reference to a bilateral agreement between Pakistan and India as a reference point for resolving the dispute over Kashmir was not acceptable to Kashmiris.
India has always used the Simla Agreement of 1972 as an excuse not to implement UN Security Council resolutions that in effect annul India' s illegal occupation and annexation of the State of Jammu & Kashmir.
Kashmiris worldwide will observe a black day later this month, on the 27th, when India landed its army in Srinagar, capital of Jammu and Kashmir, and occupied the state by force to prevent a majority of Kashmiris from joining Pakistan.
"Singh's statement is not acceptable to Kashmiris, especially his reference to Simla Agreement," said Khan in his video message posted on #YFK's Facebook page.
"Kashmiris don't accept Simla Agreement. We want the resolution of Kashmir dispute according to UN resolutions passed by the Security Council in 1947," he said.
The #YFK chairman is a Kashmiri from Rawalakot, the scene of recent provocative and unprovoked Indian army shelling across the ceasrefire line between Pakistani and Indian militaries that resulted in damage to property and the death of a young Kashmiri girl. Khan blasted Indian foreign minister Salman Khurshid, and accused him of working for lobbies in India that want to scuttle peace in the region.
Khan said Khurshid's statement accusing Pakistan of sending Kashmiri freedom fighters across the ceasefire line has been contradicted by the commander of the Indian border security force [BSF].
Following Indian foreign minister's interview to VOA in Washington, the BSF commander held a briefing for Indian journalists in occupied Srinagar where he denied border fortifications were breached. [Also see this report of Oct. 7, where Indian officials concede they do not know where the alleged attackers came from, which renders Indian foreign minister's statement to VOA incorrect and motivated.] [Also see the reply of Pakistan's interior minister, who described the Indian foreign minister's statement 'unnecessary and against diplomatic norms."]
India does not allow foreign media into occupied Kashmir. Last year, Western media uncovered thousands of unmarked graves across Kashmir, mostly young Kashmiris arbitrarily executed by India's occupation army to stem an unprecedented uprising against Indian military occupation. Indian soldiers are regularly involved in cases of systematic rapes of women in order to pressure their menfolk into submission.
Khan said the timing of Indian foreign minister's statement, hours before the Pakistani and Indian premiers were scheduled to meet in New York, was interesting.
"I don't know why this statement was issued just before the meeting between Pakistani and Indian prime ministers," Khan said.
Pakistan is witnessing a revival of interest in the international dispute over Kashmir after nearly a decade of sidelining the issue as former Pakistani presidents – first Musharraf and then Zardari – pursued secret solutions directly with the Indians. The proposed solutions meant an unprecedented concession from Pakistan to India and a negation of UN resolutions on Kashmir. But India failed to clinch a deal hoping for more Pakistani concessions that never came.
The launch of #YFK is part of this revival, where Pakistani and Kashmiri youth have come together to form a political lobbying group to bring Kashmir back to the top of Pakistan's India policy agenda. The lobbying effort lists some big names among Pakistani and Kashmiri businessmen as its financiers.
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