Kashmir movement has entered decisive phase: Siraj

LAHORE: Jamaat e Islami Pakistan Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has said the Kashmir liberation movement has entered the decisive phase and it was obligatory for the Pakistani government to discharge its responsibilities in this direction.

The JI chief also said an OIC meeting should be called to project the Kashmir issue as the collective issue of the Muslim Ummah. Addressing meeting of the JI on Wednesday, he said that the UN resolutions on Kashmir must be implemented.

He said that special desks should be set up at the Pakistani embassies and a deputy foreign minister be appointed to exclusively deal with the Kashmir issue by mobilising the world opinion.

He said the Pakistani government was unable to give due attention to the Kashmir issue because of its internal problems. However, he said, that India’s would face defeat on Kashmir. He said that Kashmir was the issue of life and death for the country, so the government should give full patronage to the Kashmiris. The JI chief said talks with India could be held only on one-point agenda of the liberation of Kashmir and right to self determination for the Kashmiris. He said that as long as the Pakistan government did not come out of friendship with India, real pressure on the Kashmir issue could not be built up.

Sirajul Haq condemned the massacre of the Kashmris at the hands of Indian troops in Shopian and deplored that the UN and the human rights bodies were doing nothing to stop the killings. He said the Indian ambassador should have been summoned to lodge strong protest with him. The JI chief expressed confidence in the leadership of new Hurriat leader Ashraf Sehbaee.