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What will Geelani & Co do now? Right to self-determination 10/15/2014 11:46:30 PM Rustam JAMMU, Oct 15: Now that the United Nations General Assembly has rejected out-of-hand the Pakistani request to intervene in Jammu & Kashmir to end the ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan and said that it was for the two concerned nations to resolve the issue, the question arises what will seditionists and merchant of death and destruction Syed Ali Shah Geelani and others of their ilk in Kashmir would do? In the provocative letter to the UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon, Pakistan National Security and Foreign Affairs advisor Sartaj Aziz on October 12 said Pakistan believed the U.N. had an important role to play in promoting the objective of peaceful resolution of the Kashmir issue, including through his "good offices". In response, Ban's deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq, when asked to comment on the letter seeking Ban's intervention and his viewpoint on the issue, told reporterson Monday in New York he would refer to a statement that was issued last week by Ban's spokesperson in which the U.N. chief encouraged India and Pakistan to resolve all differences through dialogue and engage constructively to find a long-term solution for peace and stability in Kashmir. In other words, Farhan Haq told reporters that the UNGA attached no importance to the Pakistani request and overruled the possibility of any plebiscite in the Indian Jammu & Kashmir State, thus showing Geelani & Co the place it deserved. Geelani and others of his ilk, everyone knows, had been urging the UN and international community to bring India and Pakistan on the negotiating table for the resolution of the so-called Kashmir issue. They had been asking the international body that it was duty bound to implement its resolutions on Jammu & Kashmir that talked about the right to self-determination, notwithstanding the fact that the said resolutions, especially the August 13, 1948 resolution, had said in unambiguous terms that the plebiscite shall be held in the State of Jammu & Kashmir as it existed on August 15, 1947 provided there was complete peace in the state and Pakistan vacated its aggression. Geelani & Co had perhaps believed that their break-India sectarian campaign could mislead the international community and create a situation that would force it to force India to declare Jammu & Kashmir a dispute territory whose political future would be decided by ascertaining the will of the Muslims of Kashmir. It was clear from what the UNGA said on Monday that it endorsed the Indian stand on Jammu & Kashmir and, hence, it will not intervene. The response of the UNGA must have rattled Geelani and others. And why not? They and Pakistan got what they deserved as rogues.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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