Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan met British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson at the British High Commission and briefed about the deteriorating situation along the Line of Control (LoC)as well as flagrant targeting of a passenger bus and an ambulance near Dudhnial in the Neelum Valley by Indian forces.
He emphasized that India was deliberately escalating tension along the LoC to divert the attention of the international community from the grave situation in the Occupied Kashmir”
He told Johnson that international community, particularly the UK, should take note of the gravity of the situation and urge India to respect human rights of Kashmiri people.
Johnson said that the UK would continue to encourage India and Pakistan for engagement for a positive dialogue” and find a lasting solution to Kashmir issue.
Meanwhile, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah on Friday, while cautioning the Indian government, said that Kashmir was not India’s “personal property to be inherited”.
According to a media outlet, Farooq Abdullah was commenting on the Indian parliament’s standing resolution on Kashmir. ‘Is this your forefathers’ property’?
He was addressing a gathering in Chenab Valley, in the presence of his son Omar Abdullah, who has also served as Kashmir’s chief minister.
Farooq Abdullah also said that Pakistan was one of the stakeholders of the Kashmir issue which even the government of India has accepted, adding that the India would have no option but to start talks with Pakistan so that the atrocities through which people of Jammu and Kashmir were undergoing would come to an end.
