Srinagar: Democratic Freedom Party Chairman Shabir Ahmad Shah has welcomed the statement of the Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari’s statement wherein he has said that Kashmir is a disputed territory. “By calling the Kashmir as a disputed territory Asif has vindicated the stand of the separatist leadership in the valley. Kashmir is a disputed territory that needs a political solution,†he said.
Shah also criticized the India’s External Affairs Minister S M Krishna’s statement, and said that by making these statements history cannot be changed. “If India calls it as their integral part why the two nuclear powers have been fighting from the last many decades. If Kashmir is their integral part why they have been holding with their counterpart. These kinds of statements are uncalled and unwarranted,†he added.
“Why the Kashmiri’s have been given promises from time to time? Why the United Nations passed 18 resolutions for resolving the Kashmir issue,†Shah questioned.
The representatives of India and Pakistan had a verbal spat in United Nations General Assembly over the decades-old Kashmir dispute.
SM Krishna’s statement had called the remarks made by Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Kashmir as “unwarrantedâ€. However the Pakistan’s Deputy Permanent Representative Raza Bashir Tarar defended the Pakistani leader’s statement at UN.
Shah said that by holding elections under the garb of power India tries to befool the whole world. In Kashmir there are seven lakh troops which is a clear cut evidence that the India is holding the valley by the use of force, he said.
Shah also said that the Kashmir is a political problem and the peace will elude the South Asia till the Kashmir issue remains unresolved.