Exactly dam construction was a technical issue & a humanitarian one that was carried out on disputed territory ! Much like the issue we face today, a humanitarian one with the Geneva Convention being thrown to our face a million & one times on this thread & threads like these since yesterday !
The International Court of Justice, likewise, is an organ of the United Nations & not a political organization ! Were it so one would be compelled to point out that whatever the UNHCR, UNICEF, WHO or the UNESCO do are purely political endeavors. The Security Council & the General Assembly could indeed be dubbed political organizations but that term cannot be used as a blanket to explain away the entire organizational structure of the United Nations for it is, as I understand it to be, an 'international organization' created to facilitate 'international cooperation' between 'sovereign states'.
One could even argue that the International Court of Arbitration may also be called a 'political organization' for it too is a sub-function of the International Chamber of Commerce where nations, similar in case of the United Nations General Assembly & its other functions, are represented & go to for arbitration.
If one were not take that line of reasoning than one feels compelled to accord the same status to the International Court of Justice for whereas one handles affairs of a purely commercial nature the other handles ones of the nature of a legal dispute.
What I fail to understand is how does a suggestion to involve a 3rd party, be it the United Nations, the Scotland Yard or some other committee, metamorphs to an advocacy of presenting the Kashmir Issue before the United Nation's General Assembly or Security Council ? This dispute is, as you rightly pointed out in respect of the Dam Construction issue, is purely of a 'humanitarian' nature where a mutilation has said to have occurred on disputed territory by Pakistani Soldiers belonging to either the 25th Baluch or the SSG ! The purview of any such commission or investigative body is not to give an opinion on the repercussions of the Kashmir Dispute or status of the territories known as Azad Jammu & Kashmir & the State of Jammu & Kashmir, it is there to substantiate Indian assertions against Pakistan in respect of a mutilation.
On to Kargil - You've just said exactly what I was advocating that even if this manages to draw an International Response, Pakistan would be painted with the same 'outrage' for that brutality with even more sympathy for India & her stance on Kashmir pouring in ! I don't think that this will Internationalize that in the least bit anymore than news excerpts, articles or talk-shows couldn't or didn't do already but even if it does & it is proved that Pakistanis did this - That works for you not for us !
So I really don't understand the line of reasoning taken by India !
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Hyperion : Aren't you gonna say something ?
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