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JRL writes to UN Chief, seeks his role in Kashmir resolution | KNO

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Srinagar, October 01 (KNO) : Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik Monday wrote a letter to UN chief Antonio Guterres ahead of his visit to India and sought his role in the resolution of Kashmir issue. “As you embark on your trip to India, we in the State of Jammu & Kashmir take this opportunity to draw your attention towards the urgency of the need to resolve the dispute over it, which, as you know, Sir, remains on the Agenda of the United Nations.

We draw your attention to three aspects of it,” JRL said in a letter to UN chief. The trio said that India’s refusal to talk was doing unimaginable harm not only to Kashmir, but to the entire South Asian region at a time during which interconnectedness culturally, economically and politically (often termed globalisation) is the driving force in international relations. “We would like to urge you to advocate that New Delhi engage with us in Kashmir and with Pakistan, with whom India’s relations are also deteriorating by the day. We have a right to self-determination. Delhi would like us to abdicate that responsibility before they talk. To cede to that demand would be to concede before talks, rendering talks unnecessary,” the letter said.

They also raised the issue of human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir, documented recently by the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights. “The lack of sustained attention by the international community to this aspect of the disputed conflict and not calling India to account on this score, has only succeeded in emboldening its armed forces, enjoying immunity from law causing untold misery for civilian Kashmiris who are forced to live with arbitrary arrest, imprisonment, torture and killings in their everyday lives,” the trio said. “Indian forces continue to shower pellets and bullets indiscriminately on the unarmed civilian population.

According to estimates, more than 16000 people in Kashmir have been seriously injured by pellets while hundreds have been permanently blinded. 14 percent of these victims are below the age of 15,” they said. The “campaign of suppression” through daily cordon and search operations (CASO) has become a permanent feature, said the JRL. “During these operations, the forces assault residents and damage their properties. A warlike situation exists in Anantnag, Bandipora, Baramulla, Kulgam, Pulwama and Shopian districts,” the letter said.

It added that Jammu and Kashmir was not a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan. “We would like to assert that it is primarily a question of the rights of the peoples of the State of J&K, and that resolution must be sought within the parameters of that definition as well. In this regard, we would like to emphasise that this facet of the dispute can only be addressed if we, the peoples of the state, are permitted to represent our case and therefore ask you to champion our right to be heard on the dispute as the primary party to it,” said the JRL. “We urge you to take these points into consideration as you engage with the Government of India.”

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