In his address to the UN General Assembly committee that deals with social, humanitarian and cultural affairs, India's Mayank Joshi Monday said free, fair and open elections were regularly held in Jammu and Kashmir at all levels.
Diyar Khan, a counsellor at Pakistan's UN Mission, Monday said his country regretted that the people of Jammu and Kashmir had been deprived of their right to self-determination. Self-determination did not lapse with the passage of time, he said. Nor could it be "set aside" by charges of terrorism.
Joshi dismissed as unsolicited Pakistan's comments about Kashmir and said they were factually incorrect. Free, fair and open elections were regularly held in that state at all levels, he said.
Exercising the right of reply, Pakistan's delegate escalated the issue, questioning New Delhi calling Kashmir a part of India and citing UN Security Council resolutions describing Kashmir a disputed territory. Regarding elections in Kashmir, he asserted that polls conducted by the Indian authorities could not be a substitute for a UN plebiscite.
The Indian delegate pointed out that the elections in Kashmir had been held under the scrutiny of international media, which had not faulted those elections.
Going for another round, the Pakistani representative of Pakistan claimed that the elections were held under what he said was foreign occupation and could not be impartial.
In reply, India's representative said that the Pakistani delegation's references to foreign occupation were out of context as Kashmir was a part of India.
Warning that nuclear terrorism threats were a pressing challenge to the global
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Militants Attack Indian Base in Kashmir Region ...
ReplyDeleteMilitants attacked an Indian army base in the disputed state of Kashmir on Thursday, wounding three soldiers, as the leaders of India and Pakistan attended a regional summit aimed at boosting trade between almost a quarter of the world's people.
Fighting between the militants and the army was ongoing, a senior Indian army officer said.
Four to five militants attacked the army base near the town of Arnia, about 2.5 miles from the border with Pakistan, the officer, who did not wish to be named as he is not authorized to speak to the media, said.
The militants had divided into two teams, with one group heading inside an army bunker and the other holed up inside a house in a village, the officer said.
India and Pakistan fought two of their three wars since independence in 1947 over Muslim-majority Kashmir, which they both claim in full but rule in part......................http://www.voanews.com/content/reu-militants-attack-indian-base-kashmir-region/2536482.html
27/11/14