Islamabad, November 05, 2019 (PPI-OT): The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) parliamentarians Tuesday termed Kashmir dispute as a global issue and assured to raise the sufferings of Kashmiris at international and regional forums till its resolution. They condemned the Indian oppression against innocent Kashmiris for depriving their human rights and identity.
A delegation comprising members of parliament from ASEAN region, led by Dato Muhammad Azmi Abdul Hamid, President of Majlis Perundingan Islam, Malaysia (MAPIM), met Speaker Asad Qaiser, in Parliament House. The Members of the Parliaments of Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar and Singapore are currently visiting Pakistan to get insight of the Kashmir dispute.
Speaker Asad Qaiser while apprising the delegation about the present situation in Occupied Kashmir said that the Kashmiri people were subjected to the worst lockdown in global history, depriving them of their fundamental rights. “The 93-days long lockdown had turned the valley into a jail, aggravating their miseries in terms of blocking communication and non-supply of food items and medicines,” he said according to a press release.
The Speaker said that thousands of youth had been subjected to abduction, torture and custodial killings besides indiscriminate use of arms on innocent women and children. He asked the Parliamentarians to highlight the Kashmir dispute in true perspective in their countries and Parliaments for putting diplomatic pressure on India to resolve it as per its international commitments and aspirations of the Kashmiri people.
Head of the delegation Dato Muhammad Azmi Abdul Hamid said that ASEAN nations strongly supported the Kashmiris’ right to self-determination which had been constantly been denied by India. The manner, India was propagating the Kashmir issue, is a sheer defiance of its international commitments, he said.
He informed the Speaker that an ASEAN Kashmir Advocacy Group was being established for highlighting the Kashmir dispute in its true perspective. He condemned the Indian forces for preventing Kashmiris from performing their religious obligations.
He said that the delegation will visit Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Line of Control to express solidarity with the Kashmiri people. Dato Muhammad Azmi said that he along with his other fellow parliamentarians would meet Speakers of ASEAN countries and apprise them about the Kashmir dispute.
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