Altaf Hamid Rao
MIRPUR (AJK): Top leadership of Azad Jammu & Kashmir including Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan, AJK Minister for Sports and Culture Ch. Muhammad Saeed and others have welcomed the address of the Prime Minister Shahid Haqan Abbasi to the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly describing it historical and true reflective of the aspirations of the entire nation including the people of Jammu & Kashmir.
Hailing the speech of Prime Minister Shahid Haqan Abbasi in the UNGA, AJK Prime Minister Raja Faraooq Haider Khan said here on Friday Prime Minister Shahid Haqan Abbasi’s speech to United Nations General Assembly ( UNGA) was the need of the hour through which he highlighted the importance of early settlement of the Kashmir issue in accordance with United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions.
Talking to this Correspondent on Friday, the AJK Prime Minister said that the Prime Minister’s address was highly praiseworthy and entirely according to the wishes of the people of Jammu & Kashmir as it covered all national and international issues, including the importance of early settlement of the Kashmir issue. Raja Farooq Haider said that the Prime Minister had presented Pakistan’s stance on all issues of national importance.
Haider underlined that Kashmir issue was raised in UNGA after a long time by any top leader of Pakistan. He lauded Shahid Haqan Abbasi for courageously highlighting the Kashmir cause. AJK Premier said Shahid Haqan Abbasi addressed UNGA as per expectations of the nation.
He said the Prime Minister of Pakistan had rightly stated that Pakistan was a peace loving country which did not want confrontation with any country. Raja Farooq said at all international forums, Pakistan was already exposing the atrocities of Indian armed forces in Occupied Kashmir and the Prime Minister highlighted the right to self-determination of the Kashmiris. “Pakistan’s stance on the issue is very clear that without the resolution of Kashmir issue sustainable peace is not possible in the regionâ€, he said adding that the PM raised the voice for giving the Kashmiris their legitimate right to self-determination in accordance with the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council.
Farooq Haider said PM Abbasi appraised the world of the massive human rights violations being committed in the Indian Held Kashmir (IHK) to suppress innocent Kashmiris. The AJK Prime Minister said it was for the first time in the history of the country that the Prime Minister of a popularly elected democratic government of Pakistan pleaded Kashmiri’s case for their right to self-determination in such a strong way.
He said the way Prime Minister Abbasi presented the issue of Kashmir in front of international community was indeed unprecedented.
Welcoming Prime Minister address to the UNGA, AJK minister for Sports and culture Ch. Muhammad Saeed termed the reiteration of categorical, just and principled stance of Pakistan on Kashmir by the Prime Minister of Pakistan Shahid Haqan Abbasi as the manifestation of the aspirations of the people of Jammu & Kashmir living on both sides of the line of control and rest of the world.
Commenting over Prime Minister’s historic address to the UN general assembly session Ch. Saeed in an interview to this correspondent here on Friday said that by reiterating bold and courageous national stance on the lingering Kashmir issue, Prime Minister Abbasi has won the hearts of the people of Jammu & Kashmir by pleading the Kashmir cause, in most effective manner. Ch. Saeed said that the people of Jammu & Kashmir are extremely grateful of Shahid Haqan Abbasi for raising the importance of early peaceful settlement of the much-delayed Kashmir issue in line with the wishes of the people of the state. Saeed said that it was high time to reiterate full solidarity and support to the suffering brethren in the Indian occupied Jammu & Kashmir where Indian occupational forces have unleashed the reign of state terrorism against the innocent Kashmiris to suppress their (Kashmiris) indigenous struggle for liberation of the motherland from the Indian tyrannical rule.
Welcoming Prime Minister Shahid Haqan Abbasi’s address to UN General Assembly President AJK Supreme Court Bar Association Syed Nishat Hussain said that by raising Kashmir issue in an bold and unequivocal manner, Abbasi has infused a new spirit of freedom among the people of Jammu & Kashmir struggling for their birth right to self determination.
Kazmi, a seasoned jurist, continued that since after the Shimla accord, it was for the first time in the history of Pakistan related of the Kashmir conflict, the head of any Pakistani government has raised the importance of early settlement of the much-prolonged Kashmir problem, inviting the attention of the global forum (UNO) of its due responsibilities for early settlement of the dispute pending on its agenda as unresolved since last 70 years.
He also appreciated Shahid Haqan Abbasi for inviting the attention of the international community during his meeting with the UN Secretary General towards the plight of the innocent Rohangiyan Muslims seeking the early end of their genocide and for their rehabilitation.
Welcoming Prime Minister Shahid Haqan Abbasi’s address to the UNGA, President PPP (Shaheed Bhutto) AJK Chapter and senior lawyer Ch. Munir Hussai, said that seeking early peaceful resolution of Kashmir issue, Prime Minister Shahid Haqaan Abbasi has sent a message to the world about the everlasting peace loving approach of Pakistan besides raising the Kashmir issue in the world forum in an affective manner.
He said it was crystal clear that early peaceful settlement of Kashmir issue was the key to the establishment of everlasting and durable peace in South Asia.
Munir said that establishment of tension-free relations between India and Pakistan through the peaceful settlement of all long-standing differences including the core issue of Kashmir, could lead to the emergence of permanence and durable peace and the cordial relations between the two neighboring nuclear arch rivals.
