Pakistan calls India's Kashmir occupation 'worst manifestation' of Indian colonialism.

UNITED NATIONS -- Describing India's occupation ofJammu and Kashmir as the"worst manifestation of modern day colonialism," Pakistan hascalled on the U.N. to push for apeaceful settlement of the lin gering Kashmir dispute inaccordance with the SecurityCouncil resolutions andKashmiri people's wishes.Noting that since 1946, 80former colonies have gainedindependence, AmbassadorMunir Akram told the GeneralAssembly's Special Political andDecolonization (Fourth)Committee that there are stillpeoples who are denied the rightto self-determination, "mostprominently the people of occu pied Jammu and Kashmir andPalestine.

"The right of self-determina tion of the Kashmiri people, thePakistani envoy said, wasexplicitly recognized in UNSCresolution 47 and several subse quent resolutions, which pre scribed that the final dispositionof the State of Jammu and Kashmir should be decided byits people through a free and fairplebiscite held under UN aus pices.

These resolutions wereaccepted by both India andPakistan, he said, adding thatunder Article 25 of the UNCharter, both parties are obligedto implement these resolutions.In his remarks, AmbassadorAkram also said that durablepeace in the Middle East canonly be achieved through thetwo-state solution and the estab lishment of a viable, independ ent and contiguous State ofPalestine, with the pre-1967 bor ders and Al-Quds Al-Sharif asits capital.On Kashmir, the Pakistanienvoy said that for 75 years,through force and fraud, Indiahas avoided the implementationof UN resolutions, and since1989, it's "brutal" campaign ofrepression killed 100,000Kashmiris.Since 5 August 2019, he said,India has taken "unilateral andillegal steps" to annex occupiedKashmir in what its leaders havetermed as a "Final Solution".

"Resolution 122 (1957) of theSecurity Council provides thatunilateral measures 'to deter mine the future shape and affili ation of the entire state or anypart thereof, would not consti tute a disposition of the...