Opportunity for Kashmiris
Hem Raj Jain, ew Delhi
In the run-up to this USA seminar arranged by Foreign Lawyers Association (in which as speakers - Kashmiri leaders from both sides of LoC, representatives of the UN, academicians & NGOs from the USA, the Ambassadors of India, Pakistan China, UK, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, are also participating), the EU has expressed concern on the human rights of Kashmiris on both sides of the LoC. The EU believes that a composite dialogue between India and Pakistan (which is nothing but a procrastinating technique of India & Pakistan) will be able to solve the Kashmir problem, especially in the backdrop of impotent & worthless advisory capacity of the UN. The Kashmir problem can be solved neither by military operations nor by these dialogues (which have brought no good to Kashmiris except some futile media coverage to participating Kashmiri leaders) but only through political settlement for which Kashmiris ought to realise that: - (1)- Human right is neither an internal matter of any country nor a bilateral issue between two contending countries but it is basically an obligation of international community, through UN. (2)- In a senseless armed struggle (supported mainly by fundamentalists on both sides of the LoC) the Kashmiris have already lost tens of thousands of their youth. The surviving Kashmiris owe it to these departed souls that the Kashmir problem is solved.
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