Hurriyat appeals to UN for early end to Kashmir dispute

Moderate Hurriyat Conference today sought the intervention of international community for resolution of Kashmir issue and an end to alleged human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir.

"Delaying of resolution of Kashmir dispute will continue to send thousands of innocent victims to graves. We, the subjugated people of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, make a fervent appeal to the international community to intervene for the cause of humanity," Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, who is under house arrest since Thursday, said in an online petition to the United Nations.

He said Kashmir dispute stands unresolved for decades and decades after the United Nations passed a resolution to hold a plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir which could have given its people a chance to decide their future in consonance with their aspirations.

"The people of Kashmir believe that the time has come that the United Nations should come forward and let India and Pakistan know that talks between these two countries must be accompanied by practical measures to restore an environment  of non-violence," he said.

He said this can be done by "immediate and complete cessation of military and paramilitary actions against the civilian population in Jammu and Kashmir, withdrawal of military from towns and villages and release of political prisoners.