Sartaj Aziz, the adviser to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
on national security and foreign affairs, said that officials from UNMOGIP, a UN observation team, were going to the disputed border to observe the ceasefire violations.
He also appealed to UN Secretary General
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
on Saturday for assistance in solving the long-running dispute with India over the status of Kashmire, according to the Sunday blurb.
Since becoming independent from Britannia in 1947, the two nuclear rivals have fought three wars, two over Kashmire.
Pakistain revived its demand for Kashmiris to be allowed to hold a plebiscite to decide the region's future, as called for by a UN resolution adopted in 1948. India has long opposed a plebiscite.
"For decades, Pakistain has been reminding the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
and the international community to fulfill that promise, in the interest of durable peace and security in the region," Aziz said in his letter to Ban Ki-moon.
