Global community favours bilateral framework on Kashmir, but Pak refuses to see writing on wall | The Indian Express

Global community favours bilateral framework on Kashmir, but Pak refuses to see writing on wall | The Indian Express

Written by Sujan R Chinoy |Updated: September 2, 2019 9:33:21 am

The writer, a former Indian Ambassador with extensive experience on China, UN and national security issues, is director general of Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. Views are personal.

Global community favours bilateral framework on Kashmir, but Pak refuses to see writing on wall

Pakistan has sought UN mediation despite being bound by the principle of bilateralism under the 1972 Simla Agreement.

Pakistan knows that India totally rejects third-party involvement. Barring a few aberrant acolytes of Pakistan, the global community, including the US, has openly favoured the bilateral framework to address all the issues between India and Pakistan.

After failing to get the UN Security Council (UNSC) to take formal notice of its antics over Article 370 and the situation in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), Pakistan has yet again attempted to internationalise J&K by writing to the president of the UNSC. It has asked for “doubling the strength of the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) Observers and to persuade India to allow them to patrol on its side of the Line of Control (LoC) as well”. In the letter, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi further requested the UNSC to consider “all possible avenues available under the UN Charter to fulfil its responsibility of maintaining peace in the region”.