India violating human rights in held Kashmir: AJK president

KARACHI: President Azad Jammu and Kashmir Sardar Masood Khan has said that India is constantly violating human rights in Kashmir. In last few months, a large number of Kashmiris were killed by the Indian forces and more than three hundred people became blind due to the use of pallet guns. India is not ready for bilateral talks on Kashmir which is highly unjustifiable.

Around 20,000 Kashmiris were injured, still they continue to support Pakistan. India is portraying freedom fighters as terrorists but the Indian forces are terrorists in reality.

These views were expressed by him while addressing a lecture entitled as ‘Kashmir –Perspectives and Reality’ organised by Students’ Advisor Office at Karachi University.

He said that the Pakistani nation must also play its role in highlighting the voice of the Kashmiri people, adding that the social media is a vital tool to highlight the voice of Kashmiris in the world. “India has occupied Kashmir for the last 70 years and was using unethical tactics to justify its illegal occupation in Kashmir,” he said.

He said that around 700,000 Indian military soldiers were deployed in the Indian-occupied Kashmir, who were using power to crush the freedom movement of the Kashmiris and their right of self-determination. He said that India was presenting this issue to the international community as a trilateral issue but this issue, undoubtedly, was a bilateral issue.

He further revealed that the Kashmiri muslims must get their right of self-determination and for positive solution it was imperative to know their decision. He added that Kashmir was not an integral part of India because Kashmiris never consider themselves an internal part of India, while, on the contrary, Kashmir was the jugular vein of Pakistan as stated by Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The state of Pakistan is incomplete without Kashmir, he added.

On the occasion, KU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Ajmal Khan said that if Pakistan emerged as a regional economic power, then the international community would listen to Pakistan's viewpoint on Kashmir, which would ensure the positive resolution of this dispute.

He said that the international community was appreciating Pakistan’s efforts to resolve the Kashmir issue and peace-building measures. The only solution to the Kashmir dispute was negotiations, therefore India must stop violence against the innocent Kashmiris, he added.