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WASHINGTON, DC: The friends and the sympathizers of the Kashmir cause are celebrating today the Solidarity Day with the people of Kashmir. The Solidarity Day is celebrated all over the world to remind the Indian leadership about the Kashmiri self-determination cause fortified by multiple resolutions of the United Nations Security Council.
"We want the international community to realize her responsibility to bring an end to the occupation of Kashmir," said Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, Executive Director of the Kashmiri American Council /Kashmir Center. He said that the way to a peaceful settlement of the Kashmir issue lies in tripartite negotiations between India, Pakistan and the accredited Kashmiri leadership.
Dr. Fai reminded that tucked between India, Pakistan, Russia, and China, Kashmir was an independent princely state when the British raj partitioned India on August 14, 1947. Princely states enjoyed the options of accession to India, accession to Pakistan, or nationhood. Authority to make the choice, according to the doctrine announced and practiced by then Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in Hyderabad and Junagadh, devolved on the people if the ruler's creed varied with the predominant religious persuasion. In Kashmir, the oppressive Maharaja had provoked a popular rebellion when independence arrived in 1947. That was the seed of the current tragedy and the Kashmir
Dr. Fai called on India to accede to international law in Kashmir and to cooperate in holding a referendum. India itself will benefit by the vast savings in military and paramilitary force in Kashmir, and by the more favorable investment environment that would follow on the heels of peace in Kashmir.
Dr. Fai voiced confidence that with good will and long-headed statesmanship the de-escalation initiatives in Kashmir nuclear abyss. by the Government of India and the Government of Pakistan will flower into a peace with justice and charity for all.
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