MIRPUR (AJK): Sep 27 (APP):Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan has appealed to the Americans to step forward to defend the rights of the people of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, who were bearing the brunt of Indian terror, aggression and colonization since August 5.
Addressing a large gathering of Americans, from different walks of life, at the prestigious Harvard Club in New York late Thursday, the AJK president said like the Americans, the Kashmiris had fought a war of independence in 1947 during which they were able to liberate only a part of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, before India moved in and occupied a big chunk of its territory, according to a press release issued by the AJK Presidential Secretariat on Friday.
The liberated territory, he said, was now called Azad Jammu & Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan which focused on education, good governance and economic development; whereas the Indian occupied territory had been subjected to brutalization since 1947.