ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar said on Saturday that considering its national duty, Islamabad has always raised its voice for Kashmiris right to self-determination at every global forum and continue to raise its voice till realization of the Kashmiris goal of freedom.
The Minister was addressing a webinar organized by Pakistan Embassy in Berlin, Germany on the occasion of Youm-e Istehsal of Kashmir to express solidarity with the people Occupied Kashmir.
“We pledge our Kashmiri brothers and sisters that we will carry their voice in every forum until the world takes action on this dispute,” he assured. The people of Illegally Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) have been making unprecedented sacrifices against the illegal rule of India, he added.
Pakistan will continue to help the people of Occupied Kashmir in their struggle for right to self-determination, he said. “On August 5, 2019, New Delhi started unilateral actions in illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and the objective behind these operations was to disempower the people of Kashmir, deprive them of their right to self-determination and expel them from their own land, Tarar further said.
“India has been attempting to bring demographic changes in the IIOJK population to damage the Kashmiris struggle for the right of self-determination”, he said. He recalled that it was India itself which took the issue of Jammu and Kashmir to the UNSC and its disputed status was recognized at international level after UN approved many resolutions on the long-standing dispute.
The minister added that India’s brutal and illegal occupation of Occupied Jammu and Kashmir was not only a violation of global laws, but also a mockery of internationally recognized principles of human rights.
The government of Pakistan had approved a unanimous resolution in the Parliament in support of Kashmiris, in which it had expressed its concern over the extremist intentions of the Hindutva government of India. It was the responsibility of the world to put pressure on New Delhi to end gross violations of human rights and the unilateral and illegal occupation of Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
Pakistani Ambassador to Berlin Saqlain Syeda, Honorary President of Prussian Society Berlin Volker Tschapke, Lord Qurban Hussain, prominent Kashmiri leaders Shamim Shawl, Altaf Hussain Wani, Mushaal Mullick, and Ali Raza Syed also addressed the webinar. They also shed light on the serious situation in IIOJK.
