ISLAMABAD: (Parliament Times) The AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan said the ongoing liberation struggle in Occupied Kashmir was not a proxy war.
He was addressing a luncheon held for federal executive council Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists here on Saturday. He said all sections of society including Kashmiri youth, women, children and elderly people had a significant contribution of sacrifices in the freedom movement. It is written on every grave of martyrs that we had sacrificed our today for your tomorrow, he added. He believed that freedom of expression brings stability.
The Premier hoped that the Pakistani journalists would bring the ground realities of IOK to the people of Pakistan and at international level through their pens. Kashmiris were fighting with the fourth largest military of the world, he observed. He said India had sealed the border through barbed wire to ensure that nothing could cross it from AJK side. The ongoing freedom struggle is completely indigenous however, its reins have been held by youth, he remarked.
Mr. Haider said India was targeting common citizens of AJK living at LoC. He said people of both sides of Kashmir were victims of Indian forces aggression. He asked the federal government to formulate the strategy anew to present Kashmir case at international level. He said dialogue process in the country should be promoted to change the culture of accusations and mudslinging. He said he was pretty concerned at the economic and political situation in the country. The country was encircled by lots of dangers from all sides, he stated.
He said Pakistan could fight well the case of Kashmiris when it was politically and economically strong. He repeated what is associated with founder of the nation that Kashmir was jugular vein of Pakistan in terms of defense, economic and political situation. The fertility of country’s lands more or less depends on rivers that flow down from Kashmir, he maintained.
Referring to growth and development of the state the Prime Minister said his government had worked out of traditions in the last three years. He said poor and unemployed youth got employment opportunities on merit through NTS and PSC. He said development budget was spent keeping in view of public needs in the State.
