AJK calls for active follow up on UN, OIC reports
Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan Tuesday said the struggle of the people of Jammu Kashmir and this dark hour of oppression has spread over 200 years, first under the tyrannical subjugation of the Dogra dynasty and after that under the occupation of India for the past 71 years.
The President made these comments while addressing the International Kashmir Conference organized by the All-party Parliamentary Group on Pakistan at the British Parliament on Tuesday.
He appealed to the MP, Lords and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to come to the rescue of the Kashmiris as it was their humanitarian responsibility. He further said that UK must raise the Kashmir issue in the UN as it is a permanent representative of the Security Council and it yields considerable influence in the international forum.
The President said that Kashmir Solidarity Day marks the day when we express our solidarity with the orphans whose parents have been killed, with the widows whose husbands have been forcibly disappeared, with the victims of rape and sexual violence, with the parents, brothers and sisters of young unarmed Kashmiris who have been killed and mercilessly dumped in mass graves by Indian occupation forces. We salute their courage their determination, and their commitment towards attaining the right to self-realization, he said.
President AJK said that calling these hideous acts as merely human rights viola- tions is a euphemism, as these actions constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity. “Indian forces are perpetrating crimes against humanity, this is genocide, this is ethnic cleansing and in clear violations in international laws, international humanitarian laws and the Geneva Conventions”, said.
He said that India’s doctrine for resolving the issue is to use brute force in order to subdue the freedom struggle, while on the other hand Pakistan believes in a peaceful resolution of the dispute by allowing the Kashmiris to ascertaining their right to selfdetermination.
He said that solely relying on bilateral talks between Pakistan and India is not possible as this issue cannot be resolved without the inclusion of the political will of the Kashmiris.