ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT+APP): Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz
Sharif on Thursday said Kashmir cannot remain on the boil
forever and India must be questioned by the international
community over the continued sufferings of Kashmiri people.
“The world needs to tell India that enough is enough”,
the Prime Minister said at the International Parliamentary
Seminar on Kashmir held here, organized by Young
Parliamentarians Forum in collaboration with Ministry of
Foreign Affairs.
Nawaz Sharif said Pakistan would continue to support the
struggle of Kashmiris for their right to self-determination.
“The voices of Kashmiri people for their freedom cannot
be silenced by the gunfires of Indian security forces,” he
said.
He termed Kashmir “an integral part of Pakistan’s
identity” and said “our hearts beat in sync with Kashmiri
brethren and we rejoice in their happiness and gloom”.
“Supporting the just struggle of Kashmiris is an article
of faith for every Pakistani,” he said, adding that Pakistan
would always extend moral, political and diplomatic support to
Kashmiris.
The Prime Minister urged upon the international
community to fulfill its 70-year-old promise with Kashmiris to
implement the resolutions of Untied Nations Security Council
that recognized the right of Kashmiris.
He said Kashmiri youth were writing a new chapter of
freedom struggle following the killing of Burhan Wani.
Nawaz Sharif said Pakistan would make sure to highlight
the Kashmir issue at every international forum and mentioned
that the government had recently sent parliamentarians as its
envoys abroad to apprise their counterparts about the plight
of Kashmiris in Indian held Kashmir.
He quoted American leader Martin Luther King Jr. as
saying that “History will have to record that the greatest
tragedy of this period of social transition was not the
strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence
of the good people”.
The Prime Minister said Pakistan desired peaceful
relations with all neighbours.
He recalled his four-point agenda presented on United
Nation General Assembly’s platform that encompassed solution
to the Kashmir issue.
Nawaz Sharif in September 2015 had proposed four points
that included respecting 2003 understanding of ceasefire in
Kashmir and at Line of Control, restraining threat of use of
force, demilitarization of Kashmir and troops withdrawal from
Siachen.