{"id":2807,"date":"2016-09-26T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T06:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/?p=2807"},"modified":"2016-09-26T12:09:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T06:39:32","slug":"can-kashmir-make-de-novo-to-the-security-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/editors-take\/can-kashmir-make-de-novo-to-the-security-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Kashmir Make De Novo to the Security- Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/fb:like>

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\u00a0 Back to Centre Stage\u00a0 <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Nawaz Sharif’s speech<\/p>\n

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The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi visits the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr. Nawaz Sharif’s home in Raiwind, where his grand-daughter’s wedding is being held, at Lahore, Pakistan on December 25, 2015.<\/p><\/div>\n

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It was almost like rolling back the clock when Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif in his address on 21 September 2016, to the United Nations General Assembly talked about the ongoing uprising and the Kashmir Dispute. Out of the allotted time, he dedicated three-fourth of his time to Kashmir problem. His speech was reminiscent of the marathon debates sparked between India and Pakistan representatives on January 15, 16 and 17 1948 on the floor of the United Nations after India had complained to the United Nations Security Council against Pakistan. Moreover wanted Pakistan to be declared as an \u2018aggressor.’<\/p>\n

In his speech India\u2019s principal delegate, Union Minister, Gopalaswami Ayyangar told the Security Council that \u2018India had been compelled to bring the Kashmir question before the Security Council because of its failure to reach agreement in direct negotiations with Pakistan owing to \u201cintransigence\u201d and \u201ccooperation.\u201d On the question of Maharaja Hari Sing acceding to India, Ayyangar told the Security Council that India had \u201cinformed the ruler the accession should be settled by plebiscite as soon as peace had been restored.\u201d Pakistan was represented by its Foreign Minister, Zafrullah Khan. Seen in right perspective, the Security Council conceded to India\u2019s proposal made to Pakistan on November 1, 1947. In this proposal Governor-General of India, Mountbatten had suggested to his Pakistani counterpart M. A. Jinnah for deciding Kashmir future by holding a Plebiscite under the supervision of the United Nations. India did not raise any objections to the United Nations passing the resolutions calling for holding a plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir under its supervision but signed them- thus sanctifying them as international agreements.<\/p>\n

Nawaz Sharif\u2019s speech in the General Assembly on Wednesday when he said \u2018peace cannot \u00a0be achieved between India and Pakistan\u00a0 without resolution of Kashmir Dispute\u2019 and referred \u2018to people of Kashmir demanding for right to self-determination as promised to them by several resolutions\u2019 was almost a refrain of what Ayyangar and Zafarullah had stated sixty-eight years back on the same floor.\"Zulfiqar-Ali-Bhutto\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In New Delhi, the speech sounded bizarre and provoked the harshest reaction from politicians and journalist because it was after a gap of decades that Pakistan Prime Minister so loudly spoke about the demand of right to self-determination for Kashmir in the General Assembly.\u00a0 He talked at great \u00a0length about recent killings, blinding, wounding of children and the human rights situation in Kashmir that and described the uprising in Kashmir as \u2018Intifada\u2019 \u00a0\u00a0It was New York Times that for the first time had called 2010 unrest in Kashmir in which 116 children and youth were killed as \u201cIntifada\u201d and Indian Author and Novelist Arundhati Roy had popularised the word in the Western media and described it as \u201cnew Intifada in Kashmir.\u201d \u00a0Most of the President\u2019s and Prime Minister of Pakistan in their speeches in the General Assembly for many years had made a casual reference to Kashmir. President Musharraf in his speeches at the General Assembly never called upon the Security Council to implement its resolutions on Kashmir except in 2005. \u00a0Seeing it faux pa former \u00a0\u00a0Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri blames Munir Akram, then Pakistan\u2019s Permanent Representative to UN. Kasuri blames Munir Akram for having handed over speech to written by him to the President instead of one prepared by the Foreign Office. Even Nawaz Sharif 2015\u00a0\u00a0 speech except lamenting the UN\u2019s failure in implementing its resolution was not detailed as the recent one. In Kashmir for its text and choice of words, Nawaz Sharif speech was compared to Bhutto\u2019s 22 September 1965 speech in the Security Council. In Kashmir it is remembered for phrases, \u201cKashmiris are our brothers in blood, flesh, and life, our kith, and kin of ours.\u201d<\/p>\n

India’s First Secretary in the Permanent Mission of India to the UN Eenam Gambhir exercising its Right of Reply in her six hundred word speech accused Pakistan of sponsoring \u201cterrorism.\u201d Interestingly, she connected Pakistan to international terrorism but did not accuse the country of instigating the 73 days old ongoing \u2018Intifada\u2019 in Jammu and Kashmir- something one is familiar with. For the first time in three years, Prime Narendra Modi will be skipping the UNGA session, in his place, it will be addressed by External Affairs Minister Sushma on Monday \u2013 the day this column appears in the Newspaper. There are indications that besides advocating for inclusion of India \u00a0in the NSG and a berth on the big table she will largely focus on Nawaz Sharif\u2019s speech accusing Pakistan of \u201ccross-border terrorism\u201d and attack and \u00a0fire in an army camp in the border town of Uri that \u2018killed seventeen soldiers.’ Such accusation and counter-accusation are a part of the history of the India and Pakistan relation. In fact, India\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0 January 1, 1948, complaint against Pakistan to the UN Security Council that ultimately earned for people of Jammu and Kashmir right to self-determination to be exercised by them through an impartial plebiscite under the supervision of the august body were not much different than the accusations that were articulated by Ms. Gambhir.<\/p>\n

The question arises where would this war of words between India and Pakistan on the floor of the UNGA that have already caused jingoistic discourses end. If it prompts some powerful or friendly country to bring the two countries to the negotiating table. Or it makes New Delhi and Islamabad with the respective stands on Kashmir approach the United Nations Security Council De Novo for helping the two countries to settle the Dispute. (India has been claiming entire state of Jammu and Kashmir as it stood on August 14, 1947, and Pakistan has been asking the Security Council to see its Resolution implemented in letter and spirit.)<\/p>\n

\"19th-SAARC-2016\"<\/a>The UN resolution could have been implemented, and Kashmir Dispute \u00a0\u00a0resolved long before but for Russia time and again using its veto power against it in the Security Council. Most of the resolution on Kashmir were co-sponsored by the United States. It seems unlikely that the USA and other countries who sponsored or co-sponsored these resolutions \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0can now distance from them 0r oppose them, if Turkey sponsors a resolution seeking\u00a0 DE Novo cognizance’ by UN Security Council of Kashmir problem because of ever-growing tensions between India and Pakistan over this sixty nine year old dispute- \u00a0a nuclear flashpoint. \u00a0The resolution could be co-sponosred \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0by China or any other member country of OIC. \u00a0In the changed global politics, more importantly the balance of power in the region \u00a0it seems unlikely Russia would use its veto against such a resolution.<\/p>\n

First published in Greater Kashmir on 26-9-2016<\/p>\n<\/fb:like><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 
\nPunchline
\n\u00a0 Back to Centre Stage\u00a0
\nNawaz Sharif’s speech
\n 
\nIt was almost like rolling back the clock when Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif in his address on 21 September 2016, to the United Nations General Assembly talked about the ongoing uprising and the Kashmir Dispute. Out of the allotted time, he dedicated three-fourth of his time to Kashmir problem. His speech was reminiscent of the marathon debates sparked between India and Pakistan representatives on January 15, 16 and 17 1948 on the floor of the United Nations after India had complained to the United Nations Security Council against Pakistan. Moreover wanted Pakistan to be declared as an \u2018aggressor.’
\nIn his speech India\u2019s principal delegate, Union Minister, Gopalaswami Ayyangar told the Security Council that \u2018India had been compelled to bring the Kashmir question before the Security Council because of its failure to reach agreement in direct negotiations with Pakistan owing to \u201cintransigence\u201d and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editors-take"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2808,"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions\/2808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}