House of Lords echoes with calls for just Kashmir solution

LONDON – Nawa-i-Waqt Group of Newspapers and All Parties Parliamentary Group organised Kashmir Conference at the House of Lords on Wednesday.
The delegates adopted a unanimous resolution, declaring that durable peace in South Asia is not possible until Kashmir dispute is settled justly.
The resolution further stated that the international community must play its due role in resolving this decades-old issue as per the wishes of the Kashmiri people and United Nations resolutions.
The document further said that Kashmir is not an issue between two countries rather it is an international issue for which major powers of the world and United Nations must play their role.
The resolution also called for an end to human rights violations in Indian-occupied Kashmir. It also demanded of the UN to appoint its special representative on Kashmir.
The document urged upon the human right groups to visit Held Kashmir and also called for the release of all political prisoners in jails there. It also demanded an end to Indian draconian laws enforced in Occupied Kashmir.
The resolution sought Kashmiris’ inclusion in talks for the resolution of the Kashmir issue.
Earlier, addressing the Kashmir conference, PML-N Central Secretary Information Ahsan Iqbal said that both PML-N and PPP are bound by Charter of Democracy to have the Kashmir problem solved as envisaged in the UN resolutions and in accordance with the wishes of the Kashmiri people. Neither of the two parties can deviate from the CoD, he maintained.
Ahsan Iqbal said that Lord Mountbatten had himself declared that the Kashmiris would be given the right of self-determination as they wished. Subsequently Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, too had promised a plebiscite in Kashmir but he did not keep his promise.
Ahsan said that it was a UN obligation to get the Kashmir problem solved, because peace in South Asia in particular and the world at large was not possible if this problem was not resolved.
Speaking at the conference, UK House of Lords Member Lord Nazir said that Amn Ki Aasha (Hope for Peace) movement could not meet success unless Kashmir problem was solved as per the desire of the Kashmiris.