Kashmir Issue and Mediation.
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Kashmir Issue and Mediation: By Muhammad Afzal Ch. Student of Diplomacy and strategic studies University of Punjab Lahore Pakistan. Introduction: The record of the international mediation (Third Party role), or meditative interventions in regard to the Kashmir dispute is clearly mixed: These interventions achieved both some successes and some failures. Among the successes were the cease-fire and truce agreements, arranged by UNCIP in 1948 and 1949.The cease-fire agreement did not hold for long, and peacekeeping operation that emerged from it failed in large measure to keep the peace. But that failure can hardly be charged exclusively against the United Nations. Among the UN's failures were the several attempts to mediate the Kashmir dispute by UN representatives between 1950 and 1958.1 Since the latter date, in no case has mediation been applied specially and explicitly to the Kashmir dispute. British mediation of the 1965 Rann of Kutch crisis between Pakistan and India brought about a cease-fire...


