NA panel pledges to highlight Kashmir issue at regional, world forums

ISLAMABAD: The Special Committee of the National Assembly on Kashmir Monday unanimously decided to highlight the Kashmir issue vigorously at every regional and international forum.

Highlighting gross violation of humans rights in Illegally Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJ&K), the committee also resolved to sensitive the world to the inhuman treatment of the people of Kashmir, especially after the abolition of Article of 37O and 35-A of the Indian Constitution. The committee met at the Parliament House with Rana Muhammad Qasim Noon in the chair. The committee also noted with grave concern that serious violations of human rights were being committed in IIOJ&K and noted that holding local government elections there would prove just a farce. Rana Qasim said the Parliament of Pakistan would continue to highlight the Indian atrocities on innocent Kashmiris. He said India had been denying the right of self-determination to Kashmiris, which was against all international norms.

He said there was an urgent need to sensitise the world to the plight of Kashmiris. “Kashmir is an unfinished agenda of the Partition and Quaid’s dream would be fulfilled after the freedom of Kashmir,” he said. He said more than one million personnel of Indian security forces had been trying to suppress the innocent Kashmiris.

The committee members also recommended visiting the border area of Azad Kashmir, Chakothi and other areas. Sardar Muhammad Yousaf Zaman, Muhammad Azhar Khan Leghari, Muhammad Raza Hayat Harraj, Rana Mubashir Iqbal, Ms. Wajiha Qamar, Asad Alam Niazi, Syed Javed Ali Shah Jilani, Ms. Sharmila Faruqui, Fateh ullah Khan, Nawabzada Iftikhar Ahmed Khan Babar, Sadiq Iftikhar, Ali Khan Jadoon, Shehryar Khan Afridi, Faisal Amin Khan, Khurram Shahzad Virk, Mian Muhammad Azhar, Aurangzeb Khan Khichi, and Muhammad Usman Bidani MNAs participated in the meeting.