Since the past sixty-three years, the Kashmiris have been struggling for their right of self-determination. Neither United Nations nor Great Powers seem serious to resolve this chronic issue. They are reluctant to implement the United Nations resolutions on Kashmir. The negligence of Kashmiris not only exposes the selective morality of the international community, but also haunts the peace and security of India and Pakistan.
The Kashmir is recognized by the United Nations as a disputed territory. Importantly, Kashmiris were promised by the Indians to be given a chance to decide about their future at the United Nations forum in 1948. But now the latter is trying to bury the former’s right to decide about its future in oblivion.  
Since 1948, Pakistan has been endeavoring, politically and diplomatically, to resolve the Kashmir dispute through the conduct of plebiscite in the Kashmir. In connection to these efforts, the Government of Pakistan announced public holiday across the country for Kashmir Solidarity Day on February 5, 2010. Human chains were made at Kohala and Mangla. People from all walks of life in Pakistan expressed their solidarity with their Kashmiri brothers. Notably, since 1975, every year, government and people of Pakistan; and Kashmiris living in Azad Kashmir have been expressing their solidarity with the Kashmiris fighting for their right of self-determination and against the Indian oppression in the Indian held Kashmir. This demonstrates the determined stance of both the Pakistanis and Kashmiris for the liberation of Kashmir from the Indian occupation.  
Kashmir is one of the most beautiful places on earth. Once visiting Kashmir, the Mughal Emperor Jehangir exclaimed: “If there is paradise anywhere on earth, it is here, it is here, it is here.” Ironically, the stubborn and brutal policies of New Delhi have turned this paradise into hell. The Indian state-terrorism has replaced the yesteryears peace and tranquility of the scenic valley of Himalayas with the misery of physical and psychic violence. India and Pakistan had fought three wars over Kashmir: in 1947, 1965, and 1999.  Moreover, the Kashmiris have been sustaining world’s longest-running separatist insurgency since over two decades. Presently, it is a power-keg, which could trigger a nuclear war in one of the world’s most populous regions.
The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, intensified Kashmiris problems. The cementing Indo-US strategic partnership and New Delhi’s diplomatic efforts to label Kashmiris and their sympathizers as a terrorists have a detrimental repercussions for the Kashmiris freedom struggle. Ironically, today, the Indians and their allies as terrorists view every Kashmiri.
Indeed, the Washington acknowledges that Al Qaeda is seeking to destabilize South Asia and planning to provoke a war between nuclear-armed Pakistan and India. The United States Secretary of Defence Robert Gates had cautioned during his recent visit in India and Pakistan that Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Afghan Taliban could carry out attacks in India for igniting the war between the belligerent neighbors—India and Pakistan. But he failed to point out the real cause of tension between India and Pakistan.
Importantly, Presidential candidate Barack Obama generated a hope for the Kashmiris during the 2008 United States general elections. On September 25, 2008, he had pledged to ‘continue supporting the ongoing Indian and Pakistani efforts to resolve the Kashmir problem in order to address the political roots of the arms race between India and Pakistan’. Ironically, after his victory, he has been continuously ignoring the predicament of unresolved Kashmir dispute. Instead of taking a bold step to address this decades’ unresolved dispute, he is distancing from the factual realities.  
The suspension of Composite Dialogue between India and Pakistan in the aftermath of Mumbai terrorist attacks on November 2008 reveals that India is not serious in resolving the conflicts with Pakistan. Conversely, Islamabad is doing its best to restart the fifth round of a dialogue process. The advantageous situation of India in the international community and reluctance of Obama Administration to seriously play its role in the India-Pakistan conflict undermine the security environment of the entire region.
To conclude, without the Kashmir solution, India and Pakistan in particular and South Asia in general would remain in a state of tension. The terrorist groups would prosper; the extra-regional powers’ decisive role in the internal and external affairs of the South Asian States would continue; and above all the entire region would remain victim of insecurity and underdevelopment.