The Pakistani’s and Kashmir are inextricable. The message was once again conveyed to the India and the world community in very clear manner when all segments of society, political parties and the armed forces of Pakistan marked Independence Day on Wednesday in solidarity with their Kashmiri brethren against the illegal acts of India in the occupied territory.

The fact of the matter is that Pakistan is incomplete without Kashmir. Black day observePakistan welcomes a major diplomatic win as the United Nations Security Council has agreed to its request to convene an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss India’s revocation of the special constitutional status of occupied Kashmir.

Black day throughout Balochistan on independence day of India in solidarity with Kashmir as rallies and protest carried in every district of the province. Pakistani flags remain half-mast at Governor and Chief Minister Balochistan house, Provisional Assembly, High Court and other important buildings of Quetta city.

Railway employees union staged a rally from logo shed to Quetta railway station and chanted slogans against India and Narendra modi and in favor of Kashmir with chants of ‘Kashmir will become Pakistan’. Fluttering flags of both Pakistan and Kashmir in rallies held across the country was a reaffirmation of the commitment on the part of people of Pakistan that they stand shoulder to shoulder with their Kashmiri brothers and sisters in their just struggle for right to self determination.

On other hands, The UN Security Council has agreed to Pakistan’s request and has called a meeting to discuss India’s decision to revoke Kashmir’s special status on Friday. Pakistan’s request was also backed by Beijing after Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi wrote a letter to the UNSC President on Tuesday.

Speaking to the press, UNSC President Joanna Wronecka said, “The UNSC will discuss the Jammu and Kashmir situation behind closed doors most likely on August 16.” The UN Security Council has finally addresses the heightened violations of international laws in the occupied valley, marking almost 50 years since the Kashmir issue has been addressed by the international body.

Pakistan had urged the UN Security Council to convene an emergency meeting to discuss India’s decision of revoking Kashmir’s constitutional status, conveying its apprehensions given the disputed Himalayan territory is regarded as a nuclear flashpoint in South Asia. The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres has urged both India and Pakistan to refrain from undertaking any measures aimed at altering the special status of the Indian occupied Himalayan valley. Guterres also voiced his concerns over reports of restrictions emerging from occupied Kashmir.

The UN Security Council has passed multiple resolutions in 1948 and later during the 1950s to settle the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan. One resolution states that a plebiscite must be held to allow the Kashmiris to decide their own future. Another UNSC resolution urges both India and Pakistan to “refrain from making any statements and from doing or causing to be done or permitting any acts which might aggravate the situation.”

The situation is really very alarming in the IoK which has also increased tension between two nuclear armed Pakistan and India. World community cannot afford to turn its back to the current situation rather it should play a more proactive role for not only defusing tension between Pakistan and India but also resolution of the festering dispute that is the main cause of tension between the two neighbours.

However, any conflict between the two countries will have disastrous consequences for regional peace and stability. The people of Pakistan and Kashmir also have great expectations from the Muslim world, especially the Gulf, to extend their whole- hearted support to the just cause of Kashmiris and help it’s people too.