Moon Desk: Decades on, the people of Jammu and Kashmiris continue to wait for fulfillment of their right to self-determination.
According to Kashmir Media Service, India has been impeding the way for a just solution of the Kashmir dispute for the last over seven decades and rejection of Kashmiris’ basic right to self-determination is also a violation of United Nations charter.
There can be no permanent peace in South Asia without a just settlement of the Kashmir dispute as regional peace is hinged on settlement of the lingering Kashmir dispute as per the will of the Kashmiri people.
Kashmiris have the right to seek the settlement of the Kashmir dispute as per their wishes and aspirations and the Modi regime cannot suppress the just struggle of Kashmiris through its military might.
Kashmir has become a flashpoint, it is time for the UN and the big powers to act now and India must remember that its policy of repression is bound to fail in IIOJK.
Meanwhile, pposition parties are deliberating on sending a delegation to Ladakh, Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir where violence during a protest last month for statehood and tribal status under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution left four people dead and several injured.
According to Kashmir Media Service, sources in several opposition parties confirmed that there have been informal discussions regarding sending a group of leaders to the Union Territory towards the end of October.
Parties like the Congress, the Communist Party of India-Marxist), the Aam Aadmi Party, the Samajwadi Party, and the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha have held talks on the proposal, they said.
An AAP leader acknowledged that deliberations have been held, but asserted that no final decision has been taken yet.
Sources in the CPI-M and the Samajwadi Party also confirmed that the proposal is under consideration. A senior opposition leader said the matter is being discussed “seriously”.
Leh was rocked by widespread violence on September 24 during a protest demonstratin by Leh Apex Body (LAB) and Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) for statehood and extension of Sixth Schedule safeguards
Opposition leaders have been vocal in condemning the deaths during the protest and the subsequent arrest of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk under the stringent National Security Act (NSA).
