SIALKOT: Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Monday said the Indian army had failed to suppress the freedom movement of the Kashmiri people even through their atrocities, large-scale human rights violations, genocide and custodial killings in the occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
Addressing a conference on the Kashmir Solidarity Day at the Anwar Club Auditorium, he said that now was the time for the international community to wake up and pressurise India to provide the oppressed people of the India-held Kashmir the fundamental right to referendum.
He said Pakistan has always wanted a peaceful solution to the Kashmir issue and the world should ensure an early implementation of the United Nations resolutions for that purpose.
“The Kashmiris are not alone in their generation-to-generation struggle for freedom as every Pakistani stands with them,” said the foreign minister.
He said the Indian Army had miserably failed to crush the Kashmiris’ struggle for independence as they were writing a new chapter of their freedom movement with every passing day.
Burhan Wani’s martyrdom at the hands of the Indian Army in 2016 gave further motivation to Kashmir’s freedom movement, he added.
Asif said that Kashmir was a lifeline for Pakistan, and the sacrifices made by thousands of Kashmiris would soon be fruitful as the day was not far when Kashmir would be free from India’s suppression.
The minister said the whole nation stood with the oppressed people of the Indian-occupied Kashmir and was showing complete solidarity with them. An early peaceful solution to the Kashmir dispute had now become vital to ensure durable peace in the region, he added.
