Saqib Ali Haidri
Muzaffarabad: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Kashmir Chapter) on Tuesday held a protest demonstration against Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan for his much “controversial statementâ€.
Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chudhary who was leading the protesters demanded resignation from AJK Prime Minister saying that his controversial statement was a big gaffe and breach of oath.
According to details, participants of the rally marched from Shaheed Burhan Muzaffar Wani Chowk towards PM house but they were stopped at Alamdar chowk Gharipan, later on President PTI called an emergency press conference at press club. The Press conference was marred by PTI activist’s indiscipline and misconduct with journalists. The PTI president and other leaders later confessed the misbehavior of their party workers.
Ex Minister AJK Khawaja Farooq ahmed, MLA Abdul Majid Khan, Vice President Taqdees Gillani,Gulzar Fatima, Chief Organizer PTI AJK Zafar Anwar, Jawad Gillani and other representative of PTI AJK were present in the press conference.
While addressing the press conference Sultan Mehmood said,” Our protest was peaceful and we demand resignation from Prime Minister Farooq Haider Khan on his statement of annexation in a press conference few days ago, Farooq Haider is not an individual person but Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir which is base camp of Kashmir Freedom of movement.”
President PTI said that PM statement has caused an irreparable loss to Kashmir freedom movement, ” PM AJK is the representative of Kashmiris along both side of LoC, he must resign on his this mistakeâ€, Sultan said adding that AJK PM later on clarified it but as a matter of fact his statement was tantamount to breaching oath of being Prime Minister of the state. Barrister Sultan Mehmood said that PM statement not only spread despondency among people living in Indian occupied Kashmir but gave a chance to Indian media for propagating against Pakistan and Azad Kashmir.
President PTI AJK also demanded government of Pakistan to present Kashmir issue in International court of Justice ICJ, he said,” India can go to ICJ to rescue one spy officer of their intelligence agency who was responsible for massacre in Pakistan then why can’t government of Pakistan go for Kashmiris, I have tried many times to file Kashmir issue case in ICJ but they didn’t accept it by saying this that ICJ only accepts plea of countries not an individual.”
Barrister Sultan reiterated that if PM AJK will not resign then PTI AJK will give a call of protest procession statewide, he said that PTI AJK will also file a case against PM AJK either in court or may give application to speaker AJK for his disqualification on his statement.