To the utter dismay of Kashmiris and Pakistan also, the United Nations in a dramatic way removed, Kashmir dispute from its list of unresolved issues that is tantamount to negation of the indigenous freedom movement of the Kashmiris. According to a private news channel, the omission of Jammu and Kashmir from the list of disputes under the observation of the UN Security Council was noticed by Pakistan whose envoy has lodged a protest on the move.Jammu and Kashmir dispute was not mentioned in the context of unresolved long-running situations, said Amjad Hussain B Sial, Pakistans Acting envoy to UN. We understand this was an inadvertent omission, as Jammu and Kashmir is one of the oldest disputes on agenda of the Security Council, he added.Sial was speaking at the UN General Assembly session, which was discussing the functioning and reform of the Security Council. It was organised by the UK that holds the presidency of the Security Council this month.Pakistan has been asking the UN to intervene to help resolve the issue but India has always maintained that it has to be resolved bilaterally between the two countries and without mediation of third party. Meanwhile, Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir has urged upon the Secretary General of the United Nations Organization to restore the dispute over Jammu and Kashmir in the agenda of the Security Council as it was an unsolved issue since 1947-48. In the presence of several valid resolutions of UN Security Council on this dispute prescribing international plebiscite as its final solution, off-loading its mention from the agenda of the Security Council militates against the logic and mandate of the UN itself, he said in a statement here on Monday morning.The AJK Premier also sent an urgent memo to the Secretary General Ban Ki-moon reminding him that on September 25, 2008 the Prime Minister of India Dr Manmohan Singh in his UN General Assembly address had declared that India wanted resolution of all outstanding issues including the issue of Jammu and Kashmir with Pakistan through talks. When factually Kashmir is an international dispute, how can it be off-marked from UN agenda. It needs to be restored. On ground too it is a dispute. Over 500000 Kashmiris have laid down their lives and more than 1.5 million rendered homeless since 1947-48 because of the dispute of Kashmir, the AJK Premier reminded.He also reminded the world body that the Security Council had acknowledged through its Kashmir resolutions that unsolved Kashmir is a dispute that threatened international security and peace. Unless the dispute is solved that threat identified by the Security Council of the UNO remains alive. Kashmir dispute of today is ringed by three nuclear powers. That increases the sensitivity of the dispute, he pointed out. The Pakistan-India accords including of Tashkent, Simla, Lahore and the summit at Agra admit Kashmir as a dispute. Even today a New Delhi sent 3-member mission is holding Kashmir dispute resolution talks with the Kashmiri segments/leaders in part of the State under Indian military occupation, he pointed out in his memo to the UN Secretary General. He appealed to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to list back the dispute over Jammu and Kashmir in the Security Council agenda. The international community must take note of the newest sensitivity of this unsolved dispute and that is that this dispute stands today ringed by three nuclear powers in the region. That needs urgent peaceful solution to this dispute via tripartite talks satisfying Kashmiri aspirations, he stressed.
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