Since the late 1980s, Pakistan’s military establishment has used youth from Jammu and Kashmir to join its various terrorist proxies like Hizbul Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed, said the director of Amsterdam based think-tank, the European Foundation for South Asian Studies, Junaid Qureshi. Junaid, who himself is a Kashmiri, was making an intervention at the 45th Session of UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. He said, “Legally, Pakistan has no locus standi on Jammu & Kashmir”. Junaid told the UN that rejection of India was the slogan dictated to the youth of Kashmir as Islamabad’s aim was the Islamic Caliphate and merger of Jammu & Kashmir with Pakistan.
