Islamabad, January 19, 2023 (PPI-OT):President Dr Arif Alvi has assured Pakistan’s full support to the people of Kashmir in their just struggle for securing their right to self-determination. The assurance was given by the President during a meeting with the political leaders of Azad Jammu and Kashmir in Islamabad, today. Addressing on the occasion, President Dr Arif Alvi said that the Government of Pakistan and the entire Pakistani leadership, irrespective of their political affiliations, were fully committed towards the Kashmir cause and would continue giving their moral, political, and diplomatic support for the inalienable right to self-determination of the Kashmiris.
He maintained that the Kashmiri brothers and sisters were waging a just freedom struggle by all means and angles and were sacrificing their lives for the attainment of their inalienable right. He deplored that the Muslim freedom movements around the world were deliberately, wrongly and unjustifiably equated with the terrorist movement, whereas other such movements were termed as just and lawful.
The President proposed that the media, being the most effective tool to convey around the world any injustice committed anywhere in the world against humanity, must also be used effectively to raise the voice and aspirations of the Kashmiris for their right to self-determination. He said the media should also highlight the illegal, unlawful, and unjust Indian actions of August 5, 2019 which had unilaterally deprived the Kashmiris of their special status and protection which was provided to them under Article 370 and 35A of the Indian Constitution and the human right violations committed in IIOJK by India with impunity.
Dr Arif Alvi said that the international media should also be engaged to compare the political, economic, social, cultural and religious freedoms enjoyed by the Kashmiris in AJK and contrast it with the oppression, cruelty, humiliation and suppression of Kashmiris in IIJOK. Earlier, the Acting President of AJK, Anwar ul Haq, Prime Minster of AJK, Sardar Tanvir Ilyas, Former PM of AJK, Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan, and members of the AJK Legislative Assembly in their addresses highlighted the atrocities being perpetually perpetrated by the brutal Indian occupation forces against the innocent Kashmiris to suppress their voice for the demand of self-determination and plebiscite.
The Kashmiri leadership stated that all Kashmiris of IIOJK and AJK dreamt and aspired to become a part of Pakistan and the entire Kashmiri leadership irrespective of their political affiliations supported the slogan of “Hum Pakistani Hain, aur Pakistan Hamara Hai”. The political leadership of AJK in a unanimously passed resolution called upon India to reverse its illegal and unlawful actions of 5th August 2019. They also re-endorsed the principled stand taken by Pakistan to link any negotiation or dialogue with India with the reversal of these actions.
Later, the participants of the meeting offered Fateha for the martyrs of the Kashmir Freedom Movement and prayed for the prosperity of Pakistan and the early resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute.
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