Whether or not Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar mentions the Kashmir issue during her speech to the UN General Assembly has become an issue because the government is not seen as arguing the case of the Kashmiri people forcefully enough. The UNGA speech by the head of a countrys delegation is supposed to outline the problems faced by a country, and for Pakistan, that includes its problems with India, which are rooted in the Kashmir dispute. Apart from the governments perceived softness towards India, there is also expected this year at the General Assembly to be a titanic struggle over Palestinian statehood. This might prove a distraction from the Kashmir issue, which is its coeval in the UN, and which is also an unresolved issue. However, what India wants on Kashmir is to be allowed to remain in illegal possession of the Held State, and for the international community not be involved in this, as a price for being used as the US counterweight in the region against China. Because of this, it has devoted great efforts to having Kashmir pushed off the agenda of all bodies, to the extent that it would have a newly friendly USA put pressure on Pakistan to drop its mention even at the UNGA. It is paradoxical that it should be doing so at the UNGA, because it is in the UNSC resolutions on the subject that the best chances of a resolution lie, even though more than six decades have passed since they were first passed. Apart from the obvious advantages of backing by the world community as represented by the Security Council and of India itself, there is also the UN-supervised plebiscite to provide the inalienable right of self-determination to the Kashmiri people, for which they have been fighting the Indian occupation forces, and why they have been sent there for so many decades. Pakistan should learn not just from its own history, but that of Turkey. It had itself promised the Kashmiri people the needed diplomatic and political support, which includes keeping the UNGA reminded of the issue. To keep alive the Kashmir issue is something Pakistani diplomacy is supposed to do well, and not allow the fobbing off of the matter by bringing up the OIC Groups Ambassadors meeting scheduled before the UNGA as some sort of substitute. Pakistan would also do well to observe how Turkey is ready to provide help to the Palestinian cause, and the kind of political, moral and diplomatic support it has been providing, and will provide. Pakistan under no circumstances, no matter who might be displeased, should desist from its legitimate moral, political and diplomatic support for the Kashmiri liberation struggle, whether at the UNGA or anywhere else. Indeed, since Kashmir is one of the UNs unresolved disputes, the UNGA is a singularly appropriate forum for its mention, which Ms Khar must do.