Pakistan\u2019s caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar on Friday kept up the annual ritual of focusing on Kashmir during that country\u2019s leaders\u2019 annual speeches at the high-level General Assembly meeting.<\/p>\n
“The UN Security Council must secure the implementation of its resolution on Kashmir,” he said, asserting that India has “evaded implementation of the Security Council’s resolutions” calling for a plebiscite.<\/p>\n
In fact, it was Pakistan that refused to comply with the terms set for the plebiscite, thus nullifying it.<\/p>\n
The 1948 Council resolution made the withdrawal of Pakistani “tribesmen” and troops from Kashmir a precondition for a plebiscite. Because of Islamabad\u2019s refusal to comply with that provision, a plebiscite could not be held and India maintains, Kashmiris have expressed their will through participating in democratic elections.<\/p>\n
Kakar qualified Islamabad\u2019s opposition to terrorism by giving a free pass to those he considered involved in “freedom struggles” \u2013 that in Pakistan\u2019s view would include terrorists against India.<\/p>\n
There was a need to “distinguish genuine freedom struggles from terrorism”, he claimed.<\/p>\n
This is the main roadblock to the adoption of a comprehensive international convention against terrorism. Kakar said.<\/p>\n
“The UN military observer group for India and Pakistan should be reinforced.”<\/p>\n
He asserted that “Pakistan believes that region develops together therefore Pakistan desires peaceful and productive relations with all our neighbors, including India”.<\/p>\n
“Kashmir is the key to peace between Pakistan and India,” he said.<\/p>\n
He appealed to “global powers” asking them to “convince New Delhi to accept Pakistan’s offer of mutual restraint on strategic and conventional weapons”.<\/p>\n
Kakar alleged that an example of “the rising threat posed by far-right extremist and fascist groups” were “Hindutva-inspired extremist, threatening genocide against India’s Muslims and Christians alike”.<\/p>\n
He was silent on the attacks on Christians and Hindus in Pakistan by Islamists or the blasphemy laws that are often the basis for the attacks.<\/p>\n
Kakar also opposed adding any new permanent members to the Security Council in a reform process, saying: “Pakistan does not believe in elitism with the comity of nations”.<\/p>\n