Concerted efforts needed to foil India’s nefarious designs in region: AJK president

MIRPUR: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry on Sunday said that concerted efforts were required to foil India’s nefarious designs in the region.

Addressing an Iftar dinner in Mirpur, the AJK president said that the public liaison drive that has been formally launched from Mirpur was aimed at exposing the atrocities being committed by the Indian occupation forces against Kashmiris in the IIOJ&K and highlighting the Kashmir cause at the international forums.

He said that Indian PM Modi was trying to use Kashmir as a trump card to ensure his party’s win in the upcoming general elections.

Referring to the deteriorating situation in the IIOJ&K, Barrister Chaudhry said that under the incumbent circumstances, it was the responsibility of every Kashmiri to play his role to make the Kashmir’s ongoing freedom movement a success.

The AJK president said that he has no issues with anyone. “Earlier, I had united all the political leadership of the state on one platform for the Kashmir cause,” he said, adding that he wanted all the political parties to join hands and work together to advance the Kashmir cause.

He further said that after the abrogation of Article 370 by the Modi government, the role and responsibilities of the Kashmiris on this side of the Line of Control (LoC) have increased manifold.

He said that there has been an immense increase in the incidents of violence in the restive region. Modi’s fascist government, he said, has applied all means of oppression and brutality to suppress the spirit of Kashmiri people. “But despite using its repressive state apparatus, India has miserably failed to crush the Kashmiris’ passion and their urge for freedom of their motherland,” he added.