Siraj urges govt, parliament to give roadmap for liberation of Kashmir

ISLAMABAD: The Amir of Jamaat-e-Islami, Senator Sirajul Haq, has called upon the government and the Parliament to give a roadmap for the liberation of Kashmir as the Indian forces’ brutalities in Held Kashmir had crossed all limits.

Speaking at a reception hosted by him for the Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir Raja Farooq Haider in Islamabad on Wednesday, he said that the crisis in Held Kashmir had deepened and called for immediate notice. JI Azad Kashmir chief Abdur Rashid Turabi also addressed the gathering.

Sirajul Haq said that curfew was continuing in Held Kashmir for the last 68 days due to which there was acute shortage of eatables and medicines in the markets. He said the Indian occupation forces had martyred 500,000 Kashmiris during the last 68 years while lakhs had been subjected to torture as more than 23,000 respectable ladies had been disgraced. 

Children had been killed and schools had been put on fire. The crops of the Kashmiris were destroyed. He said that in spite of these conditions the Kashmiris were raising slogans of liberation and Pakistan Zindabad.

The JI chief said that all political and religious parties of the country were agreed upon one point agenda of the government on Kashmir. He impressed upon the government to devise a Kashmir policy in consultation with all the parties which enjoyed constitutional backing and could not be altered by any government.

He expressed the hope that Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider would make Azad Kashmir the base camp for the liberation of Kashmir. Sirajul Haq urged the Pakistan government to raise the budget for Azad Kashmir to help build the area. 

He said that the present budget for Azad Kashmir was too small.  He announced that he would act as the ambassador and the spokesman for the Kashmiris. He said that the people of his village in Lower Dir had been taking part in the Kashmir Jihad.

The Azad Kashmir Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider said that the Kashmir issue was the leftover part of the division of the  Indo-Pakistan subcontinent and the Pakistan government and the Pakistani nation should jointly strive for its solution.