Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi

King Carl Gustaf of Sweden, during his current visit to India said that his country had been observing the situation in Jammu & Kashmir for years, and indicated that the mandate– of the United Nations Military Observers Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) –was too constrained for Stockholm to take a closer look at the […]

The debate for the UNSC expansion is underway. Pakistan has justifiably opposed India’s candidacy to the UN Security Council’s permanent and non-permanent membership, arguing the Kashmir issue. Addressing the world bodyon last Tuesday, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN MunirAkram said, “at least one of the G4 does not in our view qualify for membership […]

Like Modi’s India, boththe US and Israel have adopted a policy to achieve their ulterior ends via political instrumentalisation of international law. Washington has announced to legally accept the illegal Israeli settlements on the Palestinian Occupied Territory. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last Monday announced a major reversal of the US’ longstanding policy on […]

In September, UK’s Opposition Labour Party passed an emergency motion on Kashmir calling for party leader Jeremy Corbyn to seek international observers to “enter” the region and demand the right of self-determination for its people, drawing criticism from the Indian diaspora representatives who described it as “ill conceived” and “misinformed”. The Britain Labour Party leader […]

On November 9, 2019 the international community witnessed two different state-policy versions in South Asia: First, Pakistan government’s historical Kartarpur peace initiative– launched via its state policy of religious glasnost shown to the Sikh community by Islamabad in order to facilitate thousand and thousand Sikh pilgrims to pay their ritual obeisance to Baba Guru Nanak; […]

Both China and Pakistan mutually but principally rejected the Modi government’s move to divide the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IoK). China on last Thursday opposed the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories as “unlawful and void”, saying India’s decision to “include” some of China’s territory into its administrative jurisdiction “challenged” Beijing’s sovereignty. China […]

The universal black day on Kashmir observed on October 27 is the true representation of global concern on the current Kashmir crisis. A US court has recently asked Indian Premier Narendra Modi and other members of his government to respond within a short stipulated period to the charge that they have occupied Kashmir and are […]

Though the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has retained Pakistan on the Grey List after its five-day plenary session in Paris, the international anti-money laundering watchdog has warned Pakistan of taking prompt action to check money laundering and terror financing. The FATF is conceived as a leading international body for combating money laundering and terrorist […]

While selectively applying the vertical application of international law via the UNSC platform; yet deliberately ignoring the horizontal application of the UN’s law via UNGA forum, the UN sets a glaring contradiction in its mechanism. By going through the UN’s Charter, one finds sufficient reason to believe that the UN’s moral position-because of its unwarranted […]

The rare closed-door consultations (on August 16) on Kashmir by the Security Council ended without any outcome or statement from the powerful 15-nation UN organ, was concluded with a majority mindset(albeit a show of power- play) to settle the issue via bilateral negotiations between New Delhi and Islamabad Kashmir. The UNSC policy of not settling […]