UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan told the UN on Monday that India’s use of pellet guns against peaceful protesters in Indian held Kashmir has left many young Kashmiris blinded, saying the move amounted to “first mass blinding in human history”.

Speaking in the General Assembly’s Special Political and Decolonisation (Fourth) Committee, Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi also said the UN’s decolonisation agenda would remain incomplete without settling the Kashmir dispute on the basis of Security Council resolutions that pledged the right of self-determination to the Kashmiri people.

She emphasised that implementation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the decolonisation agenda was not limited to the issue of Non-Governing Territories, but also encompassed other peoples living under alien occupation.

“Our aim, therefore, should be to ensure that all peoples under colonial administration or foreign occupation are allowed to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination,” the Pakistani envoy said.