India converting LoC into quasi border, UN told

[HAIDER]

UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has complained to the UN Security Council that India is building a wall along the Line of Control and plans to convert the LoC “into a quasi international border”.

India has dismissed the charge as incorrect and pledged to respond at an “appropriate time”.

Pakistan’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi, sent two letters to the UNSC on Sept 4 and 9, sharing Islamabad’s concern over the construction of this wall.

In the Sept 9 letter to president of the Security Council, Russian ambassador Vitaly Churkin, Ambassador Lodhi expressed “deep concern” at the development and said that India planned to construct a 10-metre-high and 135-feet-wide embankment (wall) along the 197km LoC.

Indian officials described the LoC as “the boundary between Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir”, increasing Islamabad’s fear that New Delhi was quietly trying to change the status of the disputed line.

India also claimed that one of Pakistan’s letters to the UNSC was based on a `submission’ made by Hizb-ul-Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin.

Pakistan rejected the Indian claim, saying that the letters it had sent to the UNSC were based on the information it collected from its own sources.

Pakistan “considers the embankment a permanent structure that will bring about a material change in the territory in violation inter alia of ... Security Council resolution ... of 1948”, Ambassador Lodhi wrote.

“The state of Jammu & Kashmir is an internationally recognised disputed territory with a number of United Nations Security Council resolutions on the official status of Jammu & Kashmir awaiting implementation,” she said.

Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry told a Saturday evening news briefing that Pakistan would not tolerate the wall that India was building on the working boundary.

He said the construction would be a serious violation of UN resolutions that “very clearly state that no entity will build any structure or wall at the LoC or the working boundary”.

“We will raise the issue of the latest Indian aggression at every international forum,” he said.—M. H. and A. I.

Published in Dawn, September 28th, 2015

 

[third eye]

A fence is ok , so why not a wall ?

 

[$@rJen]

Well... No One can stop the plan now.... complain all you want but the wall will be raised. besides its not possible to build a wall in all the places of LoC

 

[indianBong]

A fence is ok , so why not a wall ?

Coz terrorists can't move through walls so easily....

 

[dadeechi]

A fence is ok , so why not a wall ?

Because you can still shoot through the fence but not through the wall..

 

[I S I]

So this is how 4/5th war will ignite between PAKISTAN & INDIA.
Good job darendar khoti for driving India to one way trip to Hell.

 

[unbiasedopinion]

He said the construction would be a serious violation of UN resolutions that “very clearly state that no entity will build any structure or wall at the LoC or the working boundary”.

Pakistan should be the last one basing its arguments on the UN resolutions. Pakistan was the one who didn't honor UN resolution in its first place by handing over the occupied area under Pakistan back to India. Had they done it, there would be no need to build the so called wall now.

 

[Mythal]

So this is how 4/5th war will ignite between PAKISTAN & INDIA.
Good job darendar khoti for driving India to one trip to Hell.

How is raising a wall igniting war? Its the exact opposite. We stay on our side, you on yours. No peeking or shooting or sending terrorists.

 

[Nefarious]

Nice target practice. Make sure you have plenty of bricks and cement for repares...these stray bombs/shells fall everywhere!

 

[Bang Galore]

Nice target practice. Make sure you have plenty of bricks and cement for repares...these stray bombs/shells fall everywhere!

It's a 135 feet wide embankment, good luck with the shelling.

 

[Dragon4]

There is no wall and India doesnt have plans to make one yet. Even Pakistanis cant prove there is such a wall or if any such wall is being created.
Its just a propaganda by a terrorist from Hizbul Mujahideen which made its way into the official letter to UN. How shameful and irresponsible on part of Pakistani's ambassador. They are hellbent on sabotaging India's stand currently in UN and also want themselves to be relevant.
And be practical.. do you think India Army is so stupid to create a wall which would hamper their own interests, and why did Pakistan Army didnt shout and cry before, how come all of a sudden the 197km long and 10m high wall is created?
Funny, Pakistan wants the world to believe that the 197km long and 10m high wall was created overnight.

 

[egodoc222]

It's a 135 feet wide embankment, good luck with the shelling.

Chill bro...he is too dumb to know the difference!!

 

[Ice Cube]

it's already a quasi border

 

[Hussain Farooqui]

Pakistan should be the last one basing its arguments on the UN resolutions. Pakistan was the one who didn't honor UN resolution in its first place by handing over the occupied area under Pakistan back to India. Had they done it, there would be no need to build the so called wall now.

There must be plebiscite in the occupied Kashmir as per the UN resolution. Why is Bharat is so scared of holding a plebiscite in Kashmir? Bharat is a rich country so the Kashmiris may opt to live with Bharat

 

[Osiris]

Nice target practice. Make sure you have plenty of bricks and cement for repares...these stray bombs/shells fall everywhere!

It will be 135 feet wide embankment made of compacted mud.

Speaking plainly, it is more of a raised obstacle( against cross border infiltration), than a wall.