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Pak, K separatists oppose Delhi's stand on UNMOGIP
Right & Bold Stand
7/13/2014 1:19:05 AM
Neha

JAMMU, July 12 : Earlier this week, New Delhi asked United nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP), which has been overlooking military activity in this and other part of J&K, to vacate a government bungalow in the heart the union capital that it has been using rent-free for almost 40 years. The decision was "consistent with India's long-standing view that UNMOGIP has outlived its relevance," said Syed Akbaruddin, spokesman of the Indian Foreign Office. A foreign ministry spokesman also asserted that the decision was "in line with efforts to rationalize the UN body's presence in India".
New Delhi has been maintaining, and very rightly, that the UNMOGIP had no role to play after India and Pakistan signed the Shimla Agreement in 1972 and agreed to find a bilateral solution to their dispute over Kashmir. New Delhi has never been comfortable with the presence of the UNMOGIP overseeing its borders and has often said that no third party can have any role in resolving the dispute over Kashmir. Jammu & Kashmir is a bilateral issue has been the stand of New Delhi.
Remember, the only issue that still remains unresolved between India and Pakistan is the political future of PoJK and Gilgit-Baltistan, which have been under the illegal occupation of Pakistan since 1947-1948. Also remember, the UN resolutions have recognized the Indian sovereignty in PoJK and Gilgit-Baltistan by asking Pakistan to vacate the aggression and asking India to station its troops in the areas to be vacated to maintain law and order there.
The move of New Delhi has evoked a sharp reaction from Pakistan and its agents in Kashmir, including Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Yasin Malik and so on. Pakistan's foreign ministry spokesperson Tasnim Aslam on Friday said asking the UN observers to move out was "inconsequential" with regard to Kashmir's status.
"As long as the Kashmir dispute is not resolved, the UN Security Council mandate remains. These measures are inconsequential and they do not have any impact on the legal status of the dispute," she told reporters in Islamabad. On Thursday, she had said that Pakistan didn't recognize the accession of Jammu & Kashmir with India and that Jammu & Kashmir was a disputed territory. Kashmiri separatists have also taken the same line and said closing down the UN observer's office in Delhi is a "glaring example of growing arrogance and fascism in the behavior and attitude of India rulers".
Reacting to the Pakistani reaction to the Indian move, Hardeep Singh Puri, a former permanent representative of India to the UN, said that the behaviour of Islamabad was provocative. The stand of New Delhi is right and bold, he said.
"We have at best tolerated them (Un observers) because this is one of those byproducts of history. This was an issue of rationalizing. I don't know who had given them this largesse of free accommodation. They were not even paying normal rent for it, let alone market rent," he said. Not only Puri, a number of former Indian diplomats have also said the same thing and asked New Delhi to issue marching orders to the Delhi and Srinagar-based UN observers. They must be asked to bind up and go back to the places from where they have come, most of the former diplomats have said, adding the time has come to clear India of these observers. The fact of the matter is that the entire nation wants New Delhi to issue marching orders to the UN observers. It is hoped that new government in Delhi would do what the nation wants to send a clear signal to the international community that this and other part of Jammu & Kashmir was, is and shall always remain an integral part of India.
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