Pakistan has once again raised the Kashmir issue in the United Nations and said that political issues needed political solutions for conflict resolution, reported Dawn.

Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN, Munir Akram, was speaking at the first meeting of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations of the 2021 session. During his address, he highlighted the shortcomings of the current UN strategy for resolving disputes.

“Peacekeeping is not equipped to assume the responsibility to resolve such conflicts, insurgencies, and cross-border attacks,” he was quoted as saying by Dawn.

Reminding the UN that the issue was brought to the organization in 1948, Akram said, it remained unresolved to date. The dispute has caused two wars and hundreds of border skirmishes between India and Pakistan. 

“The international community, including the Security Council, has been unable to find political solutions to several long-standing disputes — such as the one over Jammu and Kashmir, where one of the oldest UN missions is stationed,” he said in the meet.

The Pakistani envoy also reminded the UN about India’s decision to bifurcate the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir and the move, he claimed, aggravated tensions between two South Asian nuclear giants.