Khan lambastes UNSC chief over disappointing approach on Kashmir.

MIRPUR -- Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan Tuesday expressed his disappointment over the statement of the Karen Pierce, President of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), in which she has said that the Security Council will not be discuss the Kashmir situation this month because this issue has already been taken up at this forum eleven weeks ago.

'If UNSC not discusses Kashmir now, then when? Will the Council meet when the Kashmiris have been finished off? That would be a travesty of justice and a dereliction of obligations under UN Charter', Sardar Masood Khan stated in a tweet.

In his reaction on Tuesday, Sardar Masood expressed surprise over Pierce's assertion that the Security Council cannot discuss Kashmir conflict because it has already been discussed. This is despite the fact that since the debate on the situation of occupied Kashmir in the Security Council session on 16 August, the situation instead of improving has further worsened in the held territory.

The AJK President said that this was the basic responsibility of the Security Council to frequently convene...

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