NEW YORK: US-based separatist Kashmiri
organisations led by the Kashmiri American Council (KAC) held demonstration near
the United Nations seeking the world body's intervention to resolve the Kashmir
issue.
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The two-hour protest was organised to coincide with
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's address to the United Nations General Assembly.
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In a memorandum sent to United Nations Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon, the KAC executive director Ghulam Nabi Fai sought UN intervention to
ensure "immediate and complete cessation" of military and paramilitary action by
the Indian forces and release of all those arrested in connection with the
ongoing insurgency.
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It also called for determination of the
"status" of Kashmir through a "free vote" of the people.
