Azerbaijan continues to consider Pakistan’s aspect on the Kashmir conflict and phone calls for global legislation to be applied in get to achieve a resolution, Azerbaijan’s Ambassador to Pakistan, Khazar Farhadov, stated this week.


The ambassador spelled out that Baku’s approach to the many years-previous problem has not changed and demanded that the pertinent United Nations Security Council resolutions must be vital to accomplishing a lasting solution to a single of the world’s oldest protracted challenges in the Kashmir location, as claimed by The Worldwide Information.


Pakistan and India have been battling around Kashmir, a Himalayan location positioned northeast of Pakistan and north of India, due to the fact 1947, immediately after the two nations gained their independence from Britain. The situation fueled two entire-fledged and a single brief wars involving the sides in 1947, 1965 and 1999. Though a ceasefire halted intense preventing considering the fact that 2003, it remains to be fragile amidst common fire exchanges throughout the so-called Line of Regulate, a 460 mile-extensive (740 kilometers) navy handle line.


These days, Delhi and Islamabad each claim the entire Kashmir area, having said that, neither country enjoys entire regulate of it. Partial management of territories by the two nations is acknowledged internationally as “Indian-administered Kashmir” and “Pakistan-administered Kashmir”. Pakistani authorities have regularly declared that Kashmiri people today could possibly select to be portion of Pakistan or continue being unbiased, but reject any concept about the region’s incorporation by India. Islamabad thinks the dialogue and appropriate UN resolutions need to be the basis for resolving the conflict.


In January 2021, international ministers of Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Pakistan achieved in Islamabad to issue a joint declaration that focused on many concerns. In the doc, the sides also voiced worry over “human rights violations in and initiatives to modify the demographic structure of Jammu and Kashmir” and reiterated their stance for a tranquil settlement of the dispute “in accordance with the appropriate UN Stability Council resolutions.”


In the meantime, Ambassador Farhadov acclaimed Pakistan’s support to Azerbaijan in the course of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict. He thanked the govt, parliament, and folks of Pakistan for morally and politically standing with Azerbaijan in the war that place fought with Armenia more than 44 days in the Karabakh region, an internationally recognized territory of Azerbaijan.


Mutual help in between Azerbaijan and Pakistan in regional and global difficulties stems from the relationship of the two nations that stood tests of time, says Head of the Institute for Peace Scientific tests and Diplomacy in Pakistan, political analyst Muhammad Asif Noor.



“Both Pakistan and Azerbaijan enjoy deep-rooted relations with each and every other. Our relations are related by means of the hearts of the folks of equally international locations,” he instructed Caspian News.



“Both Azerbaijan and Pakistan have deep support for each individual other. Associated to the latest war and its aftermath, Pakistan can assist and lengthen help to Azerbaijan on several degrees. By means of schooling and qualified possibilities such as humanitarian assistance,” Noor explained.


Azerbaijan’s Karabakh (Garabagh) region fell underneath Armenia’s occupation during the First Karabakh War in the early 1990s. Subsequent the Soviet Union’s dissolution in 1991, Armenia launched a army marketing campaign in opposition to Azerbaijan that lasted until eventually a ceasefire deal was arrived at in 1994. As a end result, Armenia occupied 20 p.c of Azerbaijan’s internationally regarded territories. In excess of 30,000 ethnic Azerbaijanis had been killed, and just one million ended up expelled from people lands in a brutal ethnic cleansing policy carried out by Armenia.


On September 27, 2020, the many years-previous conflict took a violent change after Armenia’s forces deployed in the occupied Azerbaijani lands shelled navy positions and civilian settlements of Azerbaijan. For the duration of the counter-assault operations that lasted 44 times, Azerbaijani forces liberated in excess of 300 settlements, which includes the towns of Jabrayil, Fuzuli, Zangilan, Gubadli, and Shusha, from almost 30-calendar year-very long unlawful Armenian occupation. The war finished in a tripartite statement signed on November 10 by Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia. Under the assertion, Armenia also returned the occupied Aghdam, Kalbajar and Lachin districts to Azerbaijan.


The Azerbaijani government is presently leading a large reconstruction and restoration campaign in the lands liberated past yr. The territories are becoming cleared from landmines, infrastructure and economic enhancement assignments are being applied, as effectively as residential settlements, these as “smart villages” are staying constructed in the war-torn lands. Authorities in Azerbaijan consider returning the 1st team of the internally displaced folks to their native lands by the conclusion of this year or early following calendar year.
