Jammu and Kashmir Peoples League Chairman, Mukhtar Ahmad Waza on Thursday said that the Kashmir dispute had become a “flash-point” for entire region and could cause more tension on LoC between two India and Pakistan.

Waza while addressing a public meeting in a Pahalgam area said that the people of Kashmir had been rendering “precious sacrifices” from the past several decades for securing their “birthright” to self-determination.

He said that it was responsibility of the international community to play role and put pressure on India to settle the “lingering dispute” according to the aspirations of the Kashmiri people.

He said that Kashmir was a “disputed territory” and should be resolves politically and democratically in the light of the UN Kashmir resolutions.