Kashmir issue imperative for regional, global peace & stability: Ayaz Sadiq

ISLAMABAD, Feb 5 (APP):Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has said that Kashmir issue was not just a territorial dispute but a question
of people’s inherent right to self-determination.
He said brutal force and propaganda cannot gag the voice of freedom, nor it can alter Pakistan’s resolute and principled
stance on Kashmir.
He said this in his message at the eve of Kashmir Solidarity Day to be commemorated across Pakistan and Azad
Jammu and Kashmir on February 5 to express solidarity with the Kashmiri brethren, said a press release here on
Sunday.
Referring to the future of South Asia and Kashmir dispute, the Speaker remarked that peace in South Asia will remain
elusive when world’s so-called largest democracy unleash brute force against the people of Kashmir.
He added that it is irony that the international community stands as silent spectator while India renege on UN
resolutions and launch violence, fake encounters, enforced disappearances, molestation, murders, and the use of
pellet guns against defenseless population as India’s officially sanctioned policy in Indian Occupied Jammu and
Kashmir. He urged the United Nations and international community to ensure the implementation of its own
resolutions on Kashmir and ensure its own relevance in international disputes resolutions.
Highlighting Pakistan’s steadfast support to the freedom struggle of the Kashmiri people, the Speaker reinforced
Pakistan’s unwavering historic stance on Kashmir and added that the people and Government of Pakistan will
continue to provide all kinds of moral, diplomatic and political support to the Kashmiri people at every forum.
He highlighted that six countries 1st Speakers’ Conference hosted by National Assembly of Pakistan held at
Islamabad in December, 2017 in its declaration has stated that the Kashmir Issue needed peaceful resolution
in accordance with UN Security Council to ensure the global and regional peace and stability.
He said that the Parliament of Pakistan is fully committed for peaceful resolution of Kashmir Issue and has
passed number of resolutions against the atrocities of Indian Armed Forces in Occupied Kashmir and for rights
of self-determination of people of held valley in accordance with resolutions of United Nations Security Councils.
He remarked that forceful occupation of Kashmir was against the modern norms of nation state and people’s basic
right to self-determination – the right to form government as per people’s aspirations free from foreign interference.
Deputy Speaker Murtaza Javed Abbasi also reaffirmed that Pakistan will continue to provide unflinching moral,
diplomatic and political support to the Kashmir cause at various international forums. He added that Pakistan is
a voice of the oppressed Kashmiris and will continue to stand with the Kashmiri brethren through every thick and thin.