Altaf Hamid Rao.
MIRPUR (AJK, (Parliament Times) : Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry on Monday called upon the Kashmir-original Members of the British Parliament to raise the issue of Kashmir in the parliament and mount pressure on India to stop barbarism and brutalities against Kashmiris in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir State.
Sultan Mahmood Choudhry expressed these views in a detailed meeting with British MPs Imran Hussain, and Tahir Ali who called on him at Jammu Kashmir house in the federal metropolis.
“Kashmiri British Members of Parliament should raise the question of human rights violations in Indian Occupied Kashmir in Parliament and use their political and diplomatic clout to put an immediate end to bloodshed and violence in the restive region”, the president said, adding that Britain can play an important role to resolve the Kashmir issue.
Terming Kashmir as the legacy of the British Empire, Barrister Chaudhry said that the Kashmir problem arose when Britain left the subcontinent soon after the end of its two hundred rule. ” Since then the Kashmir problem has been hanging around”, he said. He said that despite the passage of 76 years, the unresolved dispute remains pending on the UN agenda.
He said that it was high time that the international community, especially the United Kingdom, should play its role to help resolve the long-drawn conflict in accordance with the UNSC resolutions. British MPs on the occasion condemned the Indian move to hold the G-20 conference on May 22 in occupied Srinagar city of internationally-acknowledged disputed territory of Jammu & Kashmir and assured the President that Kashmiri Diaspora community would stage anti-India protests in Britain on that black day to divert world attention towards the simmering situation in the IIoJK.