Nawaz Sharif rakes up Kashmir at UN, alleges brutalities

Raking up Kashmir at the UN, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday made a number of allegations with regard to the current unrest in the Valley. “Indian brutalities,” he said, “are well documented” and that “Pakistan will share with the Secretary General a dossier containing detailed information and evidence of the gross and systematic violations of human rights committed” in Jammu and Kashmir.

Mr Sharif, who devoted much of his 20-minute speech at the UN General Assembly session to Kashmir and the current situation in the Valley, demanded an “independent inquiry into the extra-judicial killings” and a UN fact-finding mission “so that those guilty of these atrocities are punished.”

Even as he expressed readiness for a “serious and sustained dialogue” with India for peaceful resolution of all outstanding disputes, especially J&K, he glorified slain Hizbul commander Burhan Wani as a “young leader”.

“The Security Council had called for the exercise of the right to self-determination by the people of J&K through a free and fair plebiscite held under UN auspices. The people of Kashmir have waited 70 years for implementation of this promise,” he said.