Nawaz appoints 22 envoys to raise Kashmir

22 parliamentarians appointed as special envoys ‘for fighting the Kashmir cause in different parts of the world’.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday appointed 22 parliamentarians as special envoys “for fighting the Kashmir cause in different parts of the world”.

“I am standing behind these special envoys to ensure their toil for highlighting the Kashmir cause resonates across the world so that I can shake the collective conscience of the international community during my address at the UN this September,” Sharif was quoted as saying by Dunya News. The move marks an escalation in Pakistan’s ongoing row with India over the unrest in Kashmir following the killing of militant com- mander Burhan Wani.

Sharif said Pakistan will remind the United Nations of its long-held promise of self-determination for the Kashmiri people, the report said.

Sharif’s remarks came on the 50th day of violent protests in Kashmir that have claimed 69 lives and left hundreds injured.