The Hindu : 'Trade boycott' against India, Israel urged

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Thursday, Jun 27, 2002

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'Trade boycott' against India, Israel urged

By B. Muralidhar Reddy

ISLAMABAD JUNE 26. The United Jehadi Council (UJC), an umbrella organisation of Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir based outfits operating in Kashmir, has sought to put Kashmir and Palestine in the same bracket and appealed to the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) to impose `economic sanctions' against India and Israel.

In a letter addressed to the Secretary General of the OIC, the UJC chairman and chief of the Hizbul Mujahideen, Syed Salahuddin, accused India and Israel of violating the United Nations resolutions on Kashmir and Palestine with impunity and urged the OIC to consider `trade boycott' of the two countries.

Claiming to be writing on behalf of 15 million people of Kashmir "who are struggling for their right of self-determination,'' Mr. Salahuddin said the meeting of the OIC Foreign Ministers is being held at Khartoom at the time when muslim `Ummah' is bleeding in different parts of the world especially in Kashmir and Palestine.

``It is well known all over the world that both India and Israel are mercilessly using brute force to crush the legitimate U.N. sanctified, struggle for the right of self-determination. In this brutal onslaught, India-Israel nexus is emerging not only as a pattern but also as a mechanism of close collaboration,'' he said.

The Hizbul chief said the OIC has not only to show symbolic gestures but also move beyond and routine resolution.

"If this conference works towards a Muslim Common Market and institutes a `trade boycott' against India and Israel for non-implementation of the U.N. resolution on Kashmir and Palestine and assert its individuality and identity, we would feel satisfied with the performance of the conference.''

The letter expressed the hope that the on-going conference would show a critical and serious concern towards the `atrocities committed' by the Vajpayee Government in Kashmir and the Sharon Government in Palestine.

It said India's threatening posture to bully its neighbours in South Asia should also be a cause of concern for the OIC Foreign Ministers and asserted that a permanent and durable peace in South Asia is possible only by resolving the Kashmir dispute.

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