Expressing concerns over the current situations in IOK, Former Pakistan Ambassador to the United Nations Maleeha Lodhi said that the situation on the ground is brewing into a full-fledged humanitarian crisis.

According to details, in a meeting with Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, Maleeha Lodhi told that India’s false claims of having destroyed the so-called camps across the Line of Control (LoC) in Azad Kashmir were proved to be lies when Pakistan took Islamabad-based foreign diplomats to the site in question.

Briefing Ms. DiCarlo, Ambassador Lodhi said that India’s illegal annexation of the state of occupied Kashmir on Aug. 5 had triggered multiple crises in the region and urged the UN to play its part for a peaceful settlement of the decades-old Kashmir dispute.

During the meeting, Maleeha Lodhi updated the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo on the grave situation in Indian occupied Kashmir that poses a threat to regional peace and security, according to official sources.

Urging the UN to play its part for a peaceful settlement of the dispute, Maleeha Lodhi said that Pakistan promotes peaceful resolutions and is playing its part in resolving the Saudi-Iran tensions.