RECORDER REPORT

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will continue supporting the Kashmiris' struggle for right to self-determination as per the United Nations (UN) resolutions, said Federal Minister for Human Rights Dr Shireen Mazari.

Addressing the 71st Foundation Day of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) here on Wednesday, Dr Mazari stated that Pakistan will aggressively put forward concrete proposals for the resolution of the Kashmir dispute on the basis of the UN resolutions. Mazari presented a potential strategic conflict resolution model for Kashmir, first of its nature to address the long awaited Kashmir conflict premised on principle of self-determination and plebiscite, comprising the details of intermediary steps.

Mazari suggested that Pakistan should propose a solution to the Kashmir problem resembling the Irish Peace Accord. She made it clear that she was not referring to any specific clauses of the said accord but the broad concept on the basis of which the accord was signed and implemented.

She also referred to the East Timor independence based on the concept of self-determination and said Pakistan should press the Kashmir case on these lines. She also said Pakistan should ask the United Nations to document all the Kashmiris in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) and also of the Kashmiri Diaspora across the world who qualified to vote in the referendum based on the UN resolutions whenever it takes place, adding that such documentation needs to be done.

The minister said the citizens of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) are already documented because they are participating in regular elections. She condemned the worst human rights violations and brutal repression of innocent Kashmiris by India in Indian Occupied Kashmir.