25061958  Letter dated 25 June, 1958 from the representative of Pakistan Agha Shahi to the President of the Security Council

 Letter dated 25 June, 1958 from the representative of Pakistan Agha Shahi to the President of the Security Council

1. I am directed by the Government of Pakistan to inform the Security Council that owing to the continued intransigence of India, which has prevented the Kashmir dispute from being resolved, conditions of unrest and frustration have arisen in the whole of Pakistan and Kashmir.

2. The failure of Dr. Frank Graham's recent mission, caused solely by the Government of India's categorical rejection of all his recommendations, has increased the discontent of the people of Pakistan and Kashmir, and Chaudhri Ghulam Abbas, a prominent Kashmiri leader representing the Muslim Conference and until recently Supreme Head of the Azad Kashmir Government, has in sheer desperation started a Kashmir liberation movement, the sole object of which is to liberate Kashmir from the Indian yoke. He has declared that as the condition on which Kashmiris had stopped fighting has not been fulfilled by India, they are at liberty to take direct action to secure their right of self-determination. He proposes to march peacefully into Kashmir on 27 June, 1958, along with his volunteers with the object, to use his own words, of arousing "the dormant conscience of international justice". Thousands of volunteers have rallied round him and their number is increasing. The local population is actively sympathetic to him and there is a public demand that he should be allowed to march into Kashmir.

3. The Government of Pakistan has given careful consideration to the serious situation which may develop as a result of the contemplated crossing of cease-fire line and have decided that, in keeping with their international obligations, they will in no circumstances permit any breach of cease-fire agreement and will take all the necessary steps to enforce this decision. The leaders themselves have been warned that though the Government of Pakistan will continue to take all possible steps through the United Nations to see that justice is done to the people of Kashmir and their leader Sheikh Abdullah, they cannot tolerate any breach of the agreement to which they stand committed. The Government of Pakistan has accordingly taken all possible measures to prevent any violation of the cease-fire line in Kashmir.

4. This letter may kindly be circulated among the members of the Security Council as a Council document.

(Signed) AGHA SHAHI

Minister Plenipotentiary Acting Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations

(Source: UN Document no. S/4036)