Excelsior Correspondent
SRIANGAR, July 23: Shiromani Akali Dal asked India and Pakistan to resolve the issue of Jammu and Kashmir as per the aspirations of people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Addressing a press conference here, president Shiromani Akali Dal, S. Simranjit Singh Mann said that the Kashmir was never a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan and even in the Indus-water treaty, third party was involved.
Mann said that according to UN Resolutions India had promised a plebiscite in Kashmir. “But India is not fulfilling its promise of holding plebiscite in Kashmir. Situation in Kashmir will not improve till Kashmiris are given their rights,” he said.
“Kashmir is an international issue not an issue between the India and Pakistan and the issue has to be resolved as per the aspirations of people of J&K. The involvement of third party (World Bank) shows that Kashmir is not a bilateral issue between the two neighboring countries,” he said adding that plebiscite is the democratic right of Kashmiri which was even promised by Jawahar Lal Nehru to the people of Kashmir.
Holding the Kashmiri politicians responsible for bringing controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) to the State, Mann said that the same leadership has to revoke it from here. “It was Kashmiri leadership not New Delhi who brought AFSPA here and to revoke the same, they have to play a strong role as Army is not going to leave from here because they have their vested interests,” he claimed.
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