NEW DELHI: Pakistan has failed till date to fulfil its own obligations on Kashmir under United Nations resolutions of the late 1940s, show historical records, even as its Prime Minister, Imran Khan , has threatened to approach the UN over India's decision to abrogate Article 370 and bifurcate Jammu and Kashmir.The UN Security Council’s Resolution No 47 clearly laid down sequential steps, for resolving the Kashmir issue. These steps were reiterated in the UN Commission for India and Pakistan (UNCIP) resolution of August 13, 1948 — the UN Security Council had on January 20, 1948 passed Resolution 39 under which it established the UNCIP.The steps included ceasefire, Pakistan withdrawing its troops entirely from Kashmir and using its best endeavours to secure the withdrawal from the state of Jammu and Kashmir of “tribesmen” and “Pakistani nationals not normally resident therein who have entered the state for the purpose of fighting”. Once Pakistan completed these actions, India would withdraw the bulk of its forces in stages, it states.The conditions laid down have never been met by Pakistan, sources familiar with UN resolutions on Kashmir told ET.“Pakistan not only continues its military occupation of a part of J&K but has increased it dramatically and has failed to honour UN Security Council Resolution No 47 and UNCIP Resolutions of 13 August 1948 and 5 January 1949,” said a person familiar with the issue, adding that this had taken away Islamabad’s legal right to demand a plebiscite.In his speech to the Lok Sabha on March 29, 1956, the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru recalled that “due of the admission of aggression, the first thing the commission required was that Pakistan should withdraw its armed forces from the area of the state occupied by it”, while India “were asked to withdraw bulk of our armed forces later, that is, on Pakistan withdrawing from that area”. He added: “Today, eight-and-a-half years after that, those armed forces of Pakistan are still there. Therefore, all this talk of plebiscite and other things is completely beside the point.”On March 29, 1956, India withdrew its offer of a plebiscite in Kashmir on three grounds: as per UN conditions Pakistan had to first withdraw its forces from J&K which it did not; the Jammu and Kashmir Constituent Assembly had approved the merger with India and accepted the Indian Constitution; and Cold War security alliances reflected Pakistan’s desire to seek military solutions which had changed “the entire face of the problem” by altering the objective situation drastically.Apart from its non-fulfilment of the conditions under various UN resolutions, Pakistan had also sought to change the status quo with the continued presence of the Pakistani Army in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (including Gilgit-Baltistan or G-B); the passage of enactments such as the Interim Constitution Act, 1974; the Gilgit-Baltistan (Empowerment & Self-governance) Order, 2009 (as amended in 2018); separation of G-B from occupied parts of J&K and abolishment of the ‘state-subject’ stipulation in the region; and illegal ceding of 5,180 sq km of J&K to China under the 1963 Sino-Pakistan Boundary Agreement. Since 1947, Pakistan has systematically altered the status-quo in PoK by the settlement of Pasthun and Punjabi population in G-B.