Pakistan

The donation included such items as an ultrasound machine. We do not recognize Kashmir’s accession to India in 1947 and we stick by the 1948 UN decision that the mainly-Muslim Kashmiris themselves should be allowed to decide whether to opt for India, Pakistan, or Independence. ated, given adequate nutrition, and skills in which they may be able to use to better the economy both while in asylum and thereafter. By the late 1980’s, some 6 million Afghan refugees had fled as a result of the Soviet occupation of their homeland. The territorial dispute with India over Kashmir is the root cause of displacement in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir. IDP’s also should be given the same benefits as those which refugees are granted, while maintaining that when the situations that caused these people to become internally displaced are over, those who were genuinely displaced may be allowed to return home without harassment of the authorities from which they became displaced.

Pakistan believes that the international community should ensure that the returning populations of IDP’s should be given assistance required to restart their lives, while making sure that no terrorists are being given greater opportunity to benefit from the efforts of aiding IDP’s. We would also be in favor of efforts to bring about multilateral talks with nations that host a vast amount of refugees in order to better grasp an understanding of the situation with the UNHCR and the improvement of refugee camps that do not meet the basic needs of its occupants. Children were also separated from their families and still have never been reunited with them. Since the beginning of 2004, our government has stepped up efforts to weed out up to 500 foreign Islamist militants believed to be hiding in the tribal area of South Waziristan.

Since then, along with the UNHCR, we have implemented several programs in order to give education, health services, and adequate nutrition to both women and children. In addition, we would like to see that women and children remain together while also receiving a basic education so that they may learn a trade to use while they are in refugee camps and once they return to their homeland, while making sure that the fight against terrorism in line with that of the United States continues so that the terrorist threats around the world may not abuse these women or exploit the skills and education that they acquire while they are in refugee camps. Pakistan would be in favor of resolutions involving the condensing of old camps with each other to promote voluntary repatriation upon a sustainable solution to the problems which caused the refugees to flee from their home nations. For the most part during the 1990’s Afghan women were confined to the refugee camps and were not permitted to leave, these women began to suffer from what is now called “acute psychological distress” from an unaccustomed lack of private space.