PassBlue 350d ago

In an exclusive video interview with PassBlue, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Asim Iftikhar Ahmed, breaks down the decades-long impasse over the Jammu and Kashmir dispute. “It's even heavier with the permanent members to ensure that the decisions and the resolutions that they adopted should be implemented,” he told PassBlue while referring to long-ignored resolutions from the 1940s and '50s that called for a plebiscite in Kashmir. Is it time for the UN to return to its founding principles under the Charter? And how much of the Council’s paralysis is tied to the global power tussle among the big countries? Watch the full conversation to hear why Pakistan insists the resolution on Kashmir still matters and what it believes the Council must do to reclaim its legitimacy.