MIRPUR (AJK):(Parliament Times) Sardar Masood Khan, President of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, has said that the people of Jammu and Kashmir have attached high expectations from
the newly elected members of the British parliament to raise their
voice for the realization of the right to self-determination of the
the people of Jammu & Kashmir.
Addressing UK-based Pakistani and Kashmiri community in Bradford city late Friday, President Masood said that the clout of the Kashmiri and Pakistani diaspora community in the UK has increased and he lauded their efforts to inform the British lawmakers and public opinion of the killings and massive human rights violations in the Occupied Kashmir, says a message reaching from Bradford here on Saturday.
Sardar Masood is currently on visit to United Kingdom heading a delegation of elected representative and others from AJK to raise Kashmir issue in the Western world.
Sardar Masood Khan congratulated the 12 British Members of Parliament of Kashmiri
and Pakistani extraction over their election in the recent elections.
He particularly thanked the members of the House of Commons who had
held a debate in January this year at which they expressed their
support for the Kashmiri people’s right to self-determination, called
for activation of the UN’s role in resolving Kashmir and demanded that
India end its brutalities in the Occupied Kashmir.
President Masood Khan said that the new and social media were reporting Indian
atrocities in IOK but many governments in the West were hesitant to
act because of their trade and economic interests tied with India. He
called on them not to look the other way when India, in violation of
international law, kills and imprisons Kashmiris with impunity in IOK
and across the Line of Control.
The Azad Kashmir President said that
the Kashmiri dispute could not be resolved through military means. “I was time to accelerate political and diplomatic struggle to liberate Kashmir and this track was stronger than Indian occupation forces’ brutal military campaign and terrorism in Kashmirâ€, he said.
Sardar Masood Khan: “Kashmiris will win and prevail no matter what because
they were championing a just cause and they had rejected the illegal occupation of the IOK. If India has failed to annex Kashmir through oppression in the past seventy years, it won’t be able to do so nowâ€.
Paying tribute to youth of Kashmir, he said Kashmir is ringing with
the slogans of freedom – freedom from Indian captivity and freedom
from denials of all political rights. These voices would not be
silenced, he said.
The AJK President said that the Kashmir issue is an
international issue; its resolution should not be left to the
manipulation of India through the farce of bilateral talks which have not produced any results.
The AJK President thanked Pakistan and the Organization of
Islamic Cooperation for their steadfast support for the cause of
Kashmir and underlined that Kashmiris’ resolve had become stronger
than ever to get their inalienable right of self-determination.
