Malik urges FM to take India to UNGA, ICJ.

ISLAMABAD -- Former Interior Minister Senator A. Rehman Malik yesterday sent a letter to Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi urging him to take the case of continuous unprovoked cease-fire violations and targeting of civilian population by India to the United Nations General Assembly and International Court of Justice.

He urged the Foreign Minister to request the United Nations Security Council to appoint a Special Commission to investigate all cease-fire violations by India, increase the strength of Military Observers across LoC and also file a claim of damages in terms of lives and properties in the ICJ against India.

Senator Malik has written the letter based on the Truce Agreement signed both by Pakistan, India and United Nations which bounds the two countries to implement it in letter and spirit. He said that the Truce Agreement is actually a trilateral agreement as United Nations is signatory in it and both the countries continued to make agreement regarding Line of Control but did not change the contents of 'Truce Agreement of 1949' and it is still in vogue.

The FM, he said, should seek proper investigation by UN Commission into the continuous unprovoked cease-fire violations and targeting of civilian population by India Armed Forces at Line of Control.

Penalties should be imposed on the Indian government for violation of 'Truce Agreement,' he said.

Malik said that the FM should request for deployment of additional UN Military Observers at LoC to ensure an effective supervision to maintain proper control on the line of control as per the Truce Agreement of 1949.

'I would like to draw your kind attention towards the violations of the 'Truce Agreement' duly signed by the two parties in 1949 and the agreement was supervised/countersigned by the United Nations Commission on India and Pakistan constituted by United Nations General...