Islamabad: (Parliament Times) AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider on Thursday called upon United Nations to fulfill its 68 years old promise made to the people of Jammu and Kashmir regarding their right to self determination.
He was addressing a seminar organized by All Parties Hurriyet Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir chapter (APHC-AJK) here at local hotel. The seminar held to commemorate the UN Security Council resolution passed on this day on January 5, 1949. The resolution called for settlement of Kashmir dispute by granting the people of Kashmiri their right to self-determination.
He said that the UN resolution of January 5, 1949 was a clear binding on India to fulfill her commitment of resolving the Kashmir issue according to the aspirations of the Kashmiri people through a peaceful referendum.
Senetor Raja Zafar ul Haq,federal minister for Housing Akram Khan Durrani ,Hurriat leaders Ghulam Muhammad Safi,Farooq Rehmani,Masood Tahir also addressed the Seminar.
The Prime Minister while addressing the seminar said the January 5, 1949 resolution of the UN provides base to the Kashmiris’ struggle as in this resolution the right to self-determination of Kashmiris was recognized and had called for the withdrawal of troops from the occupied Kashmir.Raja Farooq Haider said Kashmiris were facing the brutalities of genocide, detentions, murders and fake encounters and mentioned that more than 6,000 people in the Valley suffered pellet gun injuries.
The Prime Minister urged upon the international community to fulfill its 70-year-old promise with Kashmiris to implement the resolutions of Untied Nations Security Council that recognized the right of Kashmiris.
He said Kashmiri youth were writing a new chapter of freedom struggle following the martyrdom of Burhan Wani.
He said three successive generations of Kashmiris had been struggling for their right to self-determination in 70 years despite harshest measures taken against them by India.
He said the Kashmir movement was indigenous and could not be equated with terrorism.
He mentioned that funeral of Burhan Wani was attended by 200,000 people and the movement was sustained for five-long months despite Indian pressure.
Farooq Haider pointed that the ratio of Indian security personnel in Jammu and Kashmir were far larger than civilians and said there was a growing realization even in India about the treatment being meted out to Kashmiris.He said Indian authorities wanted to continue their repressive rule over Kashmir but they could not hold Kashmir for a long time. He also mentioned martyrdom of a number of Kashmiri youth and blindness of the hundreds of the people in Kashmir.
Prime Minister said Kashmir cannot remain on the boil forever and India must be questioned by the international community over the continued sufferings of Kashmiri people.
The speakers on the occasion highlighted the importance of the UN Kashmir resolutions, particularly the one passed on January 5, 1949, pledging the right to self-determination to the people of Kashmir
The others speakers   deplored that the UN resolutions could not be implemented so far due to the intransigence of India and the dispute was not resolved despite the passage of seven decades. They said that India had converted the entire occupied Kashmir into a big prison.
They said that during the last five months, over one hundred innocent people had been killed, thousands injured and hundred blinded and maimed by the Indian forces. The speakers said that India was using every cheap tactic to suppress the Kashmir’s’ ongoing liberation movement but would never succeed in its nefarious designs. They said that the Kashmir people would take their indigenous liberation movement to its logical conclusion at all costs.
They also urged the United Nations and other human rights organizations to take cognizance of the Indian state terrorism and help settle the lingering Kashmir dispute in accordance with the Kashmiris’ aspirations.
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