Kashmiris suffering like Palestinians, says Khawaja Asif

ISLAMABAD: Defence, Water and Power Minister Khawaja Asif has said while Israel continues killing Palestinians with impunity and keeps expanding its settlements in the occupied land, the Palestinians continue to suffer not only in the West Bank and Gaza but also as refugees in different parts of the world.

Similarly, the people of Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) are being subjected to the worst atrocities in their quest for self-determination promised to them by the UN Security Council, he said while speaking at the International Security Conference on Terrorism. He said the armed forces of Pakistan had singularly achieved within less than two years what the allied forces failed to achieve in more than 13 years in Afghanistan, said a press release received here.

“We are very disturbed to see that the world body politics has not learnt from its past mistakes of interventionist policies of regime change and use of non-state actors as vehicles of violence,” he said.The minister said that after the failure of such policies in Iraq and Libya, it was hoped that the same mistakes would not be repeated in the Syrian crisis.