ISLAMABAD, Jan 27 (APP): Speaker of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK)
Legislative Assembly Shah Ghulam Qadir on Friday said Kashmiris would
not accept any option except freedom from Indian subjugation.
India should realize that despite all its suppression and
oppressive tactics to quell the Kashmiris ongoing indigenous freedom movement, it would not succeed in its objective, he said while
talking to APP.
He stated the silence of international human rights organizations
and the United Nations on the atrocities of Indian forces against the
innocent people of occupied Kashmir was a criminal negligence.
Shah Ghulam Qadir called upon new UN Secretary General Antinio
Guterres and his administration to play their vital role for peaceful resolution of the Kashmir issue in accordance with the world body’s
resolutions.
He regretted that the international community had adopted a
discriminatory attitude towards the Kashmir issue. The United Nations
and Western states helped the people of East Timor to attain freedom
while they were keeping mum on Kashmir despite many resolutions
passed by the UN Security Council, which showed their double
standards, he added.
He, however, expressed optimism that in the changed world dynamics
India would not be able to keep Kashmiris under its yoke anymore
through use of brutal force and would have to give them right to
self-determination.
He said Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif had raised the
voice of Kashmiris at the leading world forums, which infused a new
spirit into their movement from freedom.
The Kashmiris were sacrificing their lives in their struggle for
attaining right to self-determination and it would not be possible
for India to keep them subjugated, he added.
He said the Kashmiri youth were shedding their blood and the
martyrdom of young Burhan Wani had further strengthened their resolve
for liberation.
The Kashmiris peaceful struggle through holding protest
demonstrations in the face of Indian brutalities showed that they
wanted only peaceful resolution of the dispute, he added.
Shah Ghula Qadir said the Kashmir resolution was not only
imperative for regional peace and and prosperity but also for
the whole world.
He said Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control
acknowledged the solidarity shown by the government and the people
of Pakistan by observing Kashmir day on February 5 every year with enthusiasm. Pakistan was extending full moral, political and
diplomatic support the Kashmiris, he added.