Muzaffarabad: (Parliament Times) The AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan said Peace could not be established in South Asia without resolving longstanding Kashmir issue in accordance with the wishes of Kashmiris.The AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan said Peace could not be estHe was talking to under training officers for advance diplomatic course in foreign services academic of 23 countries here on the other day.
He said Kashmiris were given choice of deciding their future through UN resolutions but India refused to implement these resolutions. He told the officers that there was complete freedom of speech and movement in AJK. There was no political prisoner in the state nor there was any extremism, he added. He said there was no training camp around and Kashmiris were peaceful people.
Mr. Haider welcomed the International Community and UN fact finding mission to Azad Kashmir. He said after Indian aggression liberation struggle has penetrated into the generation born in early 90s. More than 100,000 Kashmiris have been martyred, 10,000 women raped, thousands injured and thousands of houses had been destroyed by occupation forces in IOK, he remarked.
“Indian forces have been given powers under draconian laws to kill, kidnap or disappear any Kashmiri or file a fake case against him as and when they like without being accountable to anyone. Government of Kashmir has no power to take any action against any soldier” he pointed out. He told the officers that UN report has been published on the atrocities and human rights abuses of Indian forces against Kashmiris. European Parliament have held a debate on them too.
Giving more details to the officers Mr. Haider told that UN had rejected the resolution of accession to Pakistan of Kashmir assembly in 1945. Mahraja forcibly acceded Kashmir to India against the wishes of people of Jammu and Kashmir. He said the only durable resolution of Kashmir issue was to give choice of plebiscite to the people of Kashmir to determine their future with a free will. He said international community should play its role to give Kashmiris their right to self-determination. Without resolving Kashmir issue peace could not return to the region, he stated.
Regarding growth and development of AJK the Premier told the delegation that literacy rate of Kashmir was better than all provinces of Pakistan. There was enormous potential of tourism and hydropower generation which the government was fully exploiting.
