The Special Committee of Parliament on Kashmir has asked India to demolish the fencing it erected along the Line of Control (LoC), otherwise the Kashmiris would "pull it down".
Special Committee of Parliament on Kashmir, which met here on Thursday, also ruled out the possibility of converting the LoC as the international border between Pakistan and India, resonating the Kashmiris' perception that fencing is a step towards division of the state.
The unanimously adopted tough-toned resolution has come only a day after Foreign Minister Kasuri returned home after his talks in New Delhi, where the host government had succeeded in shifting the focus away from the core issue of Indian occupied Kashmir.
The committee noted that "misusing Pakistan's gesture of unilateral cease-fire" India completed three-layered electrified fencing. It called upon New Delhi to demolish illegal wire fencing to prevent further alienation and unrest on this account among the people of occupied Kashmir".
The committee said that India has violated the Simla Agreement by altering the LoC unilaterally by occupying Siachen and other areas along the LoC, including Chor Batla.
It drew a parallel between the LoC and the wall built by Israel in Palestine and urged Pakistani government to have a pro-active approach in the light of International Court of Justice verdict on that wall.
It also urged the Government of Pakistan to pursue the dispatch of a UN fact-finding mission on the LoC fencing, which should report to the UN secretary general and the Security Council.
The committee, which met under the chairmanship of Hamid Nasir Chattha decided to set up four sub-committees to highlight the Indian occupied Kashmir issue in compliance with its terms of reference which were also firmed up at the meeting.
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