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ISLAMABAD, (APP): The All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC)
has said that India is holding Kashmir on gunpoint and the people of Kashmir
have never accepted this forced occupation.
The APHC spokesman in a statement issued in Srinagar ridiculed the
statement of Indian Minister of State for External Affairs, V K Singh, said
that Hurriyet leaders were free to meet Pakistani representatives on Indian
soil.
He said that the pro-freedom leadership had never asked for permission
from India in this regard.
The spokesman said, there are three parties to the Kashmir dispute and
the Kashmiris were always meeting Pakistani representatives since
long, Kashmir Media Service reported.
“Pakistan is not only an important party to the Kashmir dispute but
this country also supports the right to self-determination of the Kashmiri people and no power in the world can break these relations of the Kashmiris with Pakistan,” he maintained. The Kashmir dispute, he said, is a Himalayan
reality.
The spokesman pointed out that the BJP in August 2014 called off the
Pak-India foreign secretaries meeting on the grounds that Hurriyet leaders
were also invited by the Pakistan on that day.
He said that BJP’s decision was based on fanatic politics and
political immaturity and there was no room for this type of thinking in the practical world.
The BJP government, he added, faced humiliation for its policies and
it was necessary for it to review them.
The spokesman rejected Singh’s statement that “Hurriyet or any third
party has no role in the two party talks of India and Pakistan”.
“Kashmir is not any border dispute between India and Pakistan which
could they solve by just talking to each other. “It is the issue of the future of 15 million people and the international community also recognizes their demand for the right to self-determination,” the statement said.
The spokesman said that the Kashmiris had been promised on the
international forums that they would be given a fair chance to decide their
future by themselves.