Issue Brief on “5th February – A Day to Renew Pledge”

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“We have taken the issue to the United Nations and given our word of honour for a peaceful solution. As a great nation, we cannot go back on it. We have left the question for final solution to the people of Kashmir and we are determined to abide by their decision.” (Jawahar Lal Nehru – February 12, 1951)[1]

An unfinished agenda of the partition plan and an oldest dispute on the United Nations Security Council agenda, the people of Kashmir are still waiting for the international community to fulfill its promise of holding a plebiscite under UN auspices to ascertain the will of the Kashmiri people. 

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