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ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT+APP): Hurriyet leaders and organizations
including Muhammad Yasin Malik, Aasiya Andrabi and Mirwaiz-led
Hurriyet forum have said that Jammu and Kashmir is a dispute
territory, and its future status is to be determined as per UN
resolutions and aspirations of its people.
The Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, Muhammad
Yasin Malik while reacting Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma
Swaraj’s address to the UN General Assembly in a statement termed
her remarks on Kashmir unrealistic, KMS reported.
He said, “If one compares the killings and atrocities
committed by British against Indian people and those committed by
India on Kashmiris will find the latter more ferocious and
tyrannical. Kashmir is and was not any nation’s integral part but
a disputed territory whose inhabitants are striving for their
birth right.”
Yasin Malik said that Sushma Swaraj had ridiculed the UN by
calling Jammu and Kashmir as an integral part of India, because it
is UN itself that is certifying and guaranteeing the disputed
nature of Jammu and Kashmir.
Chairperson of Dukhtaran-e-Millat Syedah Aasiyeh Andrabi
said that the anti-Kashmir and anti-Pakistan rants by Sushma
Swaraj were baseless and unrealistic. “These are absolute lies. A
country is claiming a territory whose inhabitants have rendered
more than six lakh sacrifices to see an end to the illegal
occupation. Do such things happen at a place which is `integral’
to any country?” she questioned.
The forum led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in its statement said,
“Jammu and Kashmir even before 1947 was not a part of India and
will never be an integral part of India. It is a disputed
territory, the final status of which has yet to be determined in
accordance with UN resolutions and as per aspirations of its
people”. The statement added that the assertions made by Shusma
Swaraj was also an attempt to deflect the world attention from
state terrorism and grave human right violations being committed
against the people of Kashmir by India and its agencies.
Tehreek-e-Mazahmat Spokesman, Shabbir Ahmad Zargar said that
rhetoric about Kashmir being an integral part was absurd.
United Jihad Council (UJC) Chairman, Syed Salahuddin said,
“Swaraj”s address is testimony to this fact that India is
suffering from frustration and in the garb of falsehood it wants
to mislead world community about the prevailing situation in
Kashmir.”