Brussels: President Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Sardar Muhammad Masood Khan arrived here today at Brussels Airport on his official visit to hold talks with Belgian Parliamentarians, think tanks and meeting with Pakistani and Kashmiri community. He was received at the airport by Officials of the Pakistan Embassy-Belgium and Kashmiri Pakistani community leaders. President Masood Khan talked to the media persons. Explaining the pupoose of his visit he said, I am here to apprise the civilized world about the deteriorating situation in IOK. He also lamented the silence of powerful nations of the world over the loss of hundreds of lives and thousands of Injuries in Kashmir.He was taken to his hotel straight from the Airport. At the Airport.President SardarMasood Khan also met members of the Brussels Regional Parliament and hold discussion with MPs. He told them that the struggle for the right of self-determination of the people of Jammu and Kashmir goes on unabated, but any process for its realization, bilateral or lateral, is stalled because of India’s obdurate opposition. Kashmiris are right now facing an existential challenge; how to put an end to killing and mass blinding by Indian Security Forces since July 8, 2016. He said that an estimated unarmed 12.5 million Kashmiris are pitted against seven hundred thousand Indian occupation troops which are armed to the teeth. Out of which, some four hundred thousand troops terrorize, kill, maim and torture the seven million residents of Kashmiris. Mass graves of thousands have been discovered; thousands have been victims of enforced disappearances: “half the widows,†and mothers and families wait forever for those who have disappeared.
Kashmiris are paying the cost of their blood and honor. India is using colonial practice but the flame of freedom burns bright in Kashmir, he maintained.
President Masood Khan told his interlocutors that the stark irony is that Indian army, one of the largest and most equipped armies of the world, has wages a full throttle, ferocious war against the people of IOK, the most unarmed people in world. India army is killing non-combatant civilians, who are demanding their freedom from Indian subjugation and their right of self-determination. Indians are calling this demand terrorism. Pakistan and people of Azad Jammu and Kashmir are extending their moral, diplomatic and political support to the people of Kashmir. The Kashmiris have right to defend themselves. If the most powerful nations on earth have that right to defend themselves according to UN charter, why is it being denied to the people of Kashmir, he ascertained.
SardarMasood Khan said that the bitter truth is that right now Kashmir is not on the Radar Screen of Global Powers or even the United Nation. This does mean we will be discouraged or dishearten. We will continue to knock the doors until we get their attention. Western powers see profit and strategic benefits in their relation with India. I call it rank mercantilism and misplaced strategic alignment. We are confident that our will resonate in World capitals and like other people of the world Kashmiris too would get their right.
