United Nations body lists Jammu Kashmir as separate COUNTRY
"Disputed Regions Treated As Independent Entities’
FAHEEM ASLAM
Srinagar, Oct 8: Amid mounting international focus on Kashmir, a Untied Nations body has listed Jammu and Kashmir as a ‘separate country’ in one of its important reports on greenhouse emissions.
The development comes amid talks that the United Nations was willing to use its “good offices” in resolving the Kashmir issue, if both India and Pakistan sought the assistance of the world body.
The report titled “Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Dairy Sector: a lifecycle assessment” has listed Jammu and Kashmir as part of East Asia, along with Arunachal Pradesh, which has been spelt as “Arunashal.”
The 2010 report has been prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations to assess the greenhouse gas emission from the dairy food chain. It has been published in collaboration with the International Dairy Foundation.
Interestingly, the Jammu and Kashmir has been spelt as “Jammu Kashmir” in the report, which is available on the FAO website www. fao.org. The other countries which have been listed in the East Asia section include Aksai Chin Arunashal Pradesh, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, China/India, Christmas Island, Dem People’s Rep of Korea, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Jammu Kashmir, Japan, Kuril Islands, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Viet Nam.While the report hasn’t mentioned any more details with regard to the issue, a Delhi-based newspaper quoted the FAO Representative in India and Bhutan, Gavin Wall, as saying: “The country grouping that is carried in Annex 5 of the report titled Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Dairy Sector: A Life Cycle Assessment is based on FAO’s Global Administrative Unit Layers (GAUL). The GAUL aims at compiling and disseminating the most reliable spatial information on administrative units for all countries in the world; it complies with the UNSC international boundaries map. Because the GAUL is developed at global level, controversial boundaries cannot be ignored. The selected approach is to treat disputed areas as ‘independent entities not dependent from countries’. In this way, the GAUL preserves national integrity for all disputing countries. Areas are then classified from a purely geographic point of view.”
The FAO issue has surfaced at a time when there is a lot of talk around that the world community, particularly the United Nations and the United States, were focusing on the resolution of the vexed Kashmir dispute.
While the UN general secretary, Ban Ki-moon on October 7 expressed his willingness to intervene in the Kashmir issue if both India and Pakistan wised so, a news report last month asserted that the US president Barrack Obama would, during his upcoming November visit to New Delhi, ask India to resolve Kashmir if it wanted a ticket in the UN Security Council.
In August 2010, Google landed in a controversy after its maps depicted Kashmir as a disputed territory and some of its parts belonging to Pakistan. The internet giant however rectified the “error” after India said “it would give rise to integrity and sovereignty issues in the country.”
Interestingly, such assertions of Kashmir being a disputed territory have surfaced at various quarters, including some of the newspapers. An Afghanistan daily named The Times of Kabul also mentions Kashmir separately in the South Asian section.
The talk of making Kashmir separate from India is not practical.India has spent huge amount of money on kashmir alone, ignoring many other states.Like rest of the then 567 Princely states,J&K has also integrated with the same instrument.The different groups in Kashmir should fight political battles within the ambit of Indian Constitution and think about development and live in peace and brotherhood.No other country is as tolerant as India in the globe.It is better,practical and prudent to be realistic.No USA no pakistan and no china are well wishers of Kashkiri people.Everyone has their own internal secret agenda.It is better, this hard truth is realised.India would rather fight wars rather than giving away Kashmir.India is not spending the huge defence budget for 26 January parade, it is for those who dream to takeaway Kashmir.
ReplyDeleteJai Hind
WHY WERE HINDU PANDITS DISLOCATED FORCIBLY FROM J&K,THEY WERE KILLED,RAPED,LOOTED & FORCED TO MOVE OUT OF THEIR OWN HOMES & MADE HOMELESS AT THE INSISTENCE OF JKLF IN CONNIVANCE WITH ISI.HOW CAN JKLF EVEN THINK OF MAKING J&K A SEPARATE COUNTRY AFTER DOING THIS TO ITS RESIDENTS.
ReplyDeleteArun Kumar The muslims were never forced out they were moved out by the Indian military has a propaganda war.To divide the Kashmiri's along religious line. Many of the Pundits left the keys with there muslim nighbers hoping to come back.Kashmir was never a part of the British Raj and when Pakistan became independent on the 14Th of August and then India on the 15th of August Kashmir was in Independent country with it's own ruler .On the pretext that the country had been invaded the India army took over Kashmir and then the prime minister of India Jawal Naru promised that the people of Kashmir would be given a free vote to decide if they wanted to be a part of India ,Pakistan or go back to I independent sovereign state.This was a ploy to increase it grip on the country.
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