Denial of Right to Self-Determination & BJP’s Hindu Conquest of Kashmir
Post Seminar Report
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Kashmir Institute of International Relations organized a seminar titled “Denial of Right to SelfDetermination & BJP’s Hindu Conquest of Kashmir,” to commemorate the Right to SelfDetermination Day for the people of Jammu and Kashmir on January 5th, 2021 at Islamabad
Hotel, Islamabad. Speakers at the seminar made a passionate appeal to the UN Security Council
urging it to implement its resolutions that guaranteed right to self-determination to the people
of Jammu and Kashmir. The seminar was attended and addressed by prominent rights activists,
academicians, former diplomats, law experts and Kashmiri leaders hailing from both sides of the
line of control (LoC) including Ms. Noureen Farooq Abrahim Khan, JI leader Abdul Rashid
Turabi, PPP AJK president Ch. Abdul Latief Akbar, Syed Muhammad Ali Director
CASSS, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Khan, Dr Owais Wasi, Dr. Qasir Raja, Syed Faiz
Naqshbandi, Advocate Parveez Shah, Wilson Wazir Minority MP for KPK and
Muhammad Ahmed Sagar. The event was chaired by Chairman Kashmir Institute of
International Relations Altaf Hussain Wani, while Chairman Kashmir Committee Shaheryar
Khan Afridi was a Chief-Guest but due to ill health could not
speak.
In his opening statement the KIIR Chief Altaf Hussain
Wani while highlighting the 
dangerous dimensions of the
Kashmir conflict said that India’s denial to grant Kashmiris their
promised right was not only a violation of the UN resolutions but it was a negation of the UN’s decolonization agenda that paved a way for successful
culmination of freedom struggles in many parts of the world, including Asia. The same principle
he said was applied for the resolution of Kashmir issue when it was brought into the notice of
the highest body (UN) in 1948 by India after occupying a major portion of the erstwhile state of
Jammu and Kashmir. “The adoption of historic resolution on 5th January 1949 came as a great
beacon-light of hope to millions of Kashmiris as they began to believe that the moment for their
freedom was at hand and they too will finally receive justice so long denied to them by occupiers”,
he said adding that Kashmiris’ cherished dream of freedom from foreign occupation was soon
turned into a nightmarish ordeal by the crafty Indian rulers who brazenly violated the norms of
international law and the commitments they made vis-à-vis holding plebiscite in the region.
Dr. Muhammad Khan Stressed the need to take timely and sustainable measures to
Dr. Owais Wasi said that a holistic review of the situation in the IOK should be taken so that a coherent strategy was evolved to stop Indian designs to change demography of Indian occupied Kashmir. He stressed the need to produce resistance
Dr. Qaiser Raja Said Pakistan will have to take concrete measures to support Kashmiris right to self-determination. The diplomatic, moral and political support has lost its importance under the current situation, especially after August 5, 2019. India
The PPP leader Ch Latied Akber said the successive Indian rulers have ridiculously ignore
undermined the role of the UN and UNCIP and threw to the winds the solemn pledges they had made with the international community and the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Advocate Pervez Shah said Indians had virtually blocked every attempt meant to resolve
Syed Faiz Naqashbandi said that political activists and leaders were being persecuted
Abdul Rashid Turabi while highlighting the devastating impacts of the conflict on the
Wilson Wazir Minority MP for KPK observed that the abysmal political and rights situation in the occupied Kashmir needs a complete research towards a deeper understanding of nature of the conflict and the need for action on the necessary measures to end it in order to protect the Kashmiris’ right to self-determination that happens to be a cardinal principle of the UN Charter.
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