MUZAFFARABAD: Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that holding a G- 20 countries’ tourism group meeting in Srinagar was a sheer violation of the UN resolutions on Kashmir.
Addressing a special session of the AJK Legislative Assembly on Monday, the foreign minister said India had deprived the people of Kashmir of their basic right of self-determination for decades, and now holding such a meeting in the militarized zone of the globe would not prove the area returning to normalcy adding that by doing so it could usurp the rights of the people in the region.
Bilawal Bhuto’s Role Hailed
Meanwhile, on the sideline of the visit of Bilawal to Muzaffarabad, a delegation of refugees hailing from Illegally Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) Monday met Bilawal and apprised him about the reservations regarding the G20 conference being held in Srinagar.
Members of the delegation hailed the efforts of the foreign minister in the context of the movement for the independence of Kashmir.
They also informed the foreign minister about the brutalities by Indian forces against the refugees coming to Azad Kashmir from IIOJK in 1990. The issue of resettlement of the refugees was also discussed on the occasion.
The delegation included Mushtaq Salam, Uzair Ahmed Ghazali, Chaudhry Muhammad Mushtaq, Ali Muhammad Butt, Iqbal Yasin Awan, and Chaudhry Firoz Din.
