WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s permanent representative to United Nations Dr Maleeha Lodhi on Friday said that India is sabotaging regional peace and the resolutions of United Nations on Kashmir.
In an interview with a private media outlet, Lodhi said Pakistan wants a permanent and peaceful solution of Kashmir dispute. “Pakistan has a principled stand on the disputed territory [of Kashmir], and victory would be of the truth,” she asserted.
Lodhi further said: “We are appraising the global community about the unconstitutional and unlawful act committed by India for Jammu and Kashmir.”
Earlier, Maleeha Lodhi held separate meetings with Chef de Cabinet to UN Secretary-General Maria Louisa Ribeiro Viotti and UN Security Council President Joanna Wronecka to discuss escalating tensions in Kashmir.
The meetings were held in the backdrop of the Indian government’s move of ending occupied Kashmir’s special status by repealing Article 370 and 35A.
The announcement was made by Indian Home Minister Amit Shah during his address in Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of Indian parliament.
Shah said, “Kashmir will no longer be a state. It will be divided into two union territories – Kashmir, which will have a legislature, and Ladakh, which will be without a legislature.”
He also told that the valley would be re-organized geographically.
The revocation of the articles has allowed other non-Muslim Indian citizens to buy land in the valley while a separate legislative assembly will be established there for its own laws.
