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Kashmir Solidarity Day - 5 February  Every year, the Pakistanis and Kashmiris across the globe observe 5 February as Kashmir Solidarity Day. On this day we reaffirm our solidarity with our Kashmiri brothers and sisters and to let them know that they are not alone, they are not voiceless. This day is a reminder to India, and the world that they made a promise to Kashmiris to let them determine their future through a free and fair plebiscite as reiterated by many UNSC resolutions. Unless and until that promise is fulfilled, the Kashmiris will not relent.

Unfortunately, it has been more than 70 years that India has been dragging its feet on granting the Kashmiris their right of self-determination. Kashmir issue is now one of the oldest issues on the agenda of UN Security Council. The current political and human rights situation in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJ&K), especially after Indian unilateral and illegal action on 5 August 2019 is abysmal. Many international agencies including the Office of High the Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in various reports on Kashmir have highlighted in detail the brutalities of Indian occupation forces against defenseless Kashmiris, who use torture, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions, rape etc. as an instrument of suppression and violation of basic human rights of Kashmiris. Pakistan has shared with the international community a dossier documenting more than 3,000 war crimes perpetrated by the Indian occupation forces in IIOJK.

Pakistan has repeatedly maintained that the only solution to the Jammu & Kashmir dispute, lies in a comprehensive, uninterrupted, uninterruptable, comprehensive bilateral dialogue. We have time and again emphasized that the UN Security Council resolutions on Kashmir provide a peaceful and democratic solution to the Jammu and Kashmir dispute. We keep on raising this issue at all available bilateral and multilateral fora, including the UN, the OIC etc.

As you know the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has emerged as the collective voice of the Muslim Ummah. It has expressed its concerns time and again about the ongoing Indian brutalities in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and almost every year OIC Contact Group for Jammu and Kashmir meets to discuss the issue. The OIC Contact Group held its last meeting on the sidelines of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly in September 2021.The Contact Group issued a joint statement in which it focused on the efforts to support the Kashmiri people in their struggle to obtain their legitimate rights, including the right to self-determination, recognized by the UN General Assembly and Security Council since 1948. It expressed its commitment to continue support to the Kashmiri people for a lasting solution that respects their dignity and rights. The Contact Group also called for immediate action to improve the human rights situation in Jammu and Kashmir.