For all you ladies that are under the impression that UN will help in Kashmir:
Letters to the Net Editor
UN resolutions on Kashmir
(March 20, 2001)
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Here are a few 'facts of life',
whether you like them or not:
The last time the Security Council discussed the 'UN resolutions' on Kashmir was in 1964 . Two years ago, these resolutions were almost thrown out as obsolete and requiring no action on the part of the SC, and it was only on Pakistan's frantic pleading that they were retained.
The most sacrosanct words of Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru and a host of other leaders of both India and Pakistan have all been thrown in the dustbins of history by the people who otherwise worship them by observing holidays on their birthdays and death anniversaries. Like Jinnah's assurances to the minorities and on democracy, religion etc., Nehru's assurance on a plebiscite in Kashmir has long become dead. In any case,
Pakistan shot itself in the legs in 1948 when it committed aggression in Kashmir and occupied a part of the state which had already signed the accession deed with India. Vacation of the aggression and the territory occupied it was a PRE-CONDITION for a UN supervised plebiscite, which Pakistan refused to comply with, which is the prime reason for India to renege on its commitment on holding a plebiscite in Kashmir.
India has stolen a quick and long march on Pakistan in almost all fields, science & technology, defence, economy, diplomacy being some of them. India has also preserved and promoted history, culture, all forms of arts, religion and other parameters of human development. While Pakistanis cry foul over India's denial of freedom to its part of Kashmir, Pakistan too has denied the same to the so-called Azad Kashmiri people. No democratic election has ever been held there and they have been consigned to remain
'Azad' only in name. The sooner everybody understands the ground realities and the compulsions of a shared past, the better it is for our two countries.
B. V. Shenoy
Bangalore, India