YFK urges UN to play role in resolving Kashmir dispute

ISLAMABAD, Jan 24 (APP):Youth Forum for Kashmir (YFK) Wednesday urged United Nations to play its key role in resolving the Kashmir dispute for perpetual peace, progress and prosperity in South Asia.
In a statement YFK spokesman said, Kashmiris do not seek compensation for the wealth they have lost, they do not demand financial aid to help them better their lives. All they ask for is to let them choose who they want to be, let them choose their identity.
He said it was on January 24, 1957 when the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) passed a Resolution No. 122, supporting the right of Kashmiris’ to decide their future by themselves: “The final disposition of the State of Jammu and Kashmir will he made in accordance with the will of the people expressed through the democratic method of a free and impartial plebiscite conducted under the auspices of the United Nations”.
The YFK insisted India to end military occupation immediately and asked New Delhi to meet international standards of justice and fair play by withdrawing the occupation army from Srinagar and all other Kashmiri cities.
YFK demanded India to allow Kashmiris to take charge of their government as a first step towards resolving the international dispute in accordance with UNSC Resolutions.
YFK appealed European Parliament, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, OSCE, ASEAN, SAARC, the Arab League, and the OIC to recognize the right of Kashmiri people to Self-Determination, and view it as the unfinished agenda of the freedom movement that led to the independence of both Pakistan and Indian in 1947 through a democratic and legal struggle where people voted to join either Pakistan or India after the departure of British forces from the region.
YFK urged the United Nations Security Council to seize itself of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Kashmir, where India’s military occupation authorities have been found involved in arbitrary and extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, denial of basic civil liberties, and the use of rape as a weapon of war. it is obligatory on the peace loving nations across the globe to come forward to resolve the conflict peacefully.