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| Pakistan: Hindu settlements in Kashmir violate UN resolutions |
| 2015-05-01 |
| [ARABNEWS] An Indian plan to resettle tens of thousands of Hindus in new townships in the disputed Moslem-majority region of Kashmire is a violation of UN Security Council resolutions, a Pak government spokeswoman said on Thursday. The divided Himalayan region is claimed by both Hindu-majority India and Islamic Pakistain and the nuclear-armed neighbors have gone to war two times over the territory since independence in 1947. Pakistain has long pressed for the implementation of decades-old UN resolutions calling for a ballot for the region to decide its future. India says the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... has no role in Kashmire. India's nationalist government said in early April it planned to resettle tens of thousands of Hindus in three new townships in its part of Kashmire. Pakistain's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said that was unacceptable. "Any effort to create special dedicated townships or zones, or any other step to alter the demographic make-up of Jammu and Kashmire, is in violation of the UN Security Council resolutions," the spokeswoman, Tasneem Aslam, told a regular briefing. "We have already seen how the people of Jammu and Kashmire are resisting it," she said. She did not elaborate, but was apparently referring to recent protests in Indian Kashmire. Between 200,000 and 300,000 Hindus are estimated to have fled Kashmire after an armed revolt against New Delhi's rule erupted in 1989. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 as opposed to the Pak resettlement in 4-5 |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-05-01 21:11 |