ISLAMABAD: (Parliament Times) The leadership of the country, political parties and media should evolve a unanimous and strong stance on Kashmir issue.
AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan expressed these remarks while giving an interview to a local television station here on Sunday.
Maqbool Bhat, Ashfaq Majeed Wani, Afzal Guru and Burhan Wani are bright stars of Kashmir liberation struggle, he added.
The Premier underscored the need of evolving an effective strategy on Kashmir taking the hurriyat leadership into confidence. He said India was misleading the world that Kashmir was an issue between India and Pakistan, altogether ignoring Kashmiris who are the fundamental party of this conflict. This is also an unfinished agenda of United Nations, he explained.
Regarding dialogues on Kashmir issue, PM Haider said the first dialogue held between Pakistan Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan and Indian PM Pandit Nehru. Z.A.Bhutto and his Indian counterpart also held talks on Kashmir and since then there have been countless rounds of dialogues at foreign ministers and foreign secretaries level between the countries but these dialogues could yield no meaningful result so far mainly because of Indian intransigence.
“Every Kashmiri knows well about the worst ever atrocities, let loose by Indian forces in the held valley. There is an atmosphere of terror in the IHK. Armless Kashmiri daughters and sons combat the guns of occupation forces merely by stones. They have already rendered unmatched sacrifices of men and material. Their educational institutions have been destroyed by military, women raped and gang-raped and children and elderly being martyred but these cruelties could not cool down Kashmiris’ passion for freedom” he said.
To a question, Mr. Haider said India had turned Kashmir into an iron curtain. It was not allowing fact finding missions, human rights organizations or media teams into the valley.
“India used chemical weapons in Kashmir and did not spare even pregnant women” he said adding that youth were subjected to third degree violence after stripping them nude.
He said India introduced pellet guns in a bid to terrorize Kashmiris and turned thousand youths blind with the use of pellet guns but it further emboldened the Kashmiris who are now ready to do or die.
Mr. Haider said Modi is murderer of Kashmiris whose thinking and policies are just like Israel.
Describing the situation of the held valley he said it is full of fear. The puppet administration has no courage to hold any official programme in open air for fear of attack of freedom fighters.
“There is no concept of free media in IOK. Indian electronic media is on payroll of Indian forces and it carries forward their policies” he said.
He said Kashmiris don’t get justice from Indian judiciary which is biased against them. Citing the example of Afzal Guru he said Indian court admitted that nothing could be proved against Guru but even then he was hanged.
Mr. Haider said strong and stable Pakistan is imperative for Kashmir liberation struggle.
He said his chopper was intentionally attacked by Indian forces at the line of control.
