Pakistan calls on UN to retain non-existent issues on agenda

Pakistan has called on the UN Security Council to retain on its agenda three non-existent and non-relevant issues -- the accession of Hyderabad to India after partition, the 1948 and 1965 conflicts besides Bangladesh's 1971 liberation war.
In a letter dated January 7, Pakistan's Ambassador to the UN Maleeha Lodhi urged the UN Security Council president to have the three items retained on the list of matters of which the Security Council is seized.
The three items are 'the India-Pakistan question'; 'the Hyderabad question' and 'the situation in the India/Pakistan subcontinent' during Bangladesh's war of independence.
Lodhi's letter, which was made public on January 8, was written three days after UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon submitted to the UN General Assembly a list of issues that the UN Security Council is still seized of but have not been considered by the most powerful decision-making wing of the UN at a formal meeting during the three-year period from January 1, 2013, to December 31, 2015.

In the letter, Ban said the India-Pakistan question (January 6, 1948; November 5, 1965); the Hyderabad question (September 16, 1948; May 24, 1949) and the situation in the India/Pakistan subcontinent (December 4,1971; December 27, 1971) have not been taken up for consideration by the UN Security Council at its formal meetings in the past three years.