Pakistan raises Kashmir at Asia-Afro meet

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Pakistan on Thursday raised the Kashmir issue at the Asian African Conference here, saying it was "tragic and unacceptable" that the inalienable right to self- determination was not fulfilled there, a view strongly rebutted by India. The issue was raised by Pakistan's National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz at the multilateral forum where countries from Asia and Africa are participating, including India which is being represented by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. "A major focus of the Bandung (1955) was respect for fundamental human rights including the right of self -determination. Many of the countries present here are proud sovereign and independent states still struggling under the yolk of colonism that time. We have therefore come a long way after that," Aziz said at the Summit. "It is tragic and unacceptable that 60 years after committing to those overarching principles people from Palestine to Kashmir are still awaiting fulfilment of their inalienable right to self-determination," he said.

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