Entire nation united for liberation of Kashmiris: Zardari

ISLAMABAD: Former president of Pakistan and President Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians Asif Ali Zardari has said that India cannot continue to usurp Kashmir for long by the use of brutal force.

“The entire nation is united for the liberation of Kashmir,” he said in a statement on Wednesday. He said that the founder of PPP Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto made Kashmir cause a part of his political struggle. “The need is to make the world aware of the philosophy of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto that India is not allowing Kashmiris of both sides to meet up,” he said.

Zardari said that Kashmir has been turned into the largest prison in the world and there are issues of food and health in occupied Kashmir. He said that if there was PPP government then president would have been in United Nations, prime minister in London and the rest of member parliament would have been in the countries of the world to protest against India.

He said that plebiscite is the basic right of Kashmiris and a part of UN charter.

In the meanwhile, Chairman Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that the only solution to the Kashmir issue is to respect the wishes of the Kashmiri people and have a plebiscite in light of the UN resolutions to allow them to determine their own fate.

“The inaction of the international community in enforcing the UN resolutions had been a betrayal of the people of Kashmir and urged them to step up to ensure the rights and wishes of the Kashmiri people are respected,” he said in a statement on a Solidarity day with Kashmir.

Bilawal said that every city, street and village in Pakistan is united by a single call, a call of solidarity with our Kashmiri brothers and sisters. “The people of Pakistan stand shoulder to shoulder with the Kashmiri people in the struggle for their right to self-determination,” he said. He said that the unprecedented and illegal lockdown by the fascistic Indian government of the Kashmir valley has been in effect for 185 days and that it was a stain on the conscience of the international community. Bilawal said that the occupation of Kashmir by India had always failed to suppress the legitimate struggle of Kashmiri people and that this latest spate of Neo-colonization was bound to fail too. He called upon global leaders not to watch idly by as Modi stoked the flames of communalism and ghettoization.

The PPP chairman said that till the liberation of Kashmir, the PPP would continue to raise its voice and fight for the democratic and human rights of the Kashmiri people.