WASHINGTON, May 11 (APP):The US-based Kashmiri diaspora must connect with the American government and people to highlight the Indian atrocities and find a just solution to the Kashmir issue, AJK President Sardar Masood Khan said here.
The AJK president, who is in Washington to highlight the ongoing Indian atrocities and violence in the occupied valley, told a large gathering of Kashmiri expatriate in Washington that India had closed all doors for talks with Pakistan and the Kashmiri leadership and was using brute force to suppress the legitimate struggle.
He appreciated the community for its unwavering commitment to the cause of Kashmir in the United States. He also commended them for the recent demonstration outside the White House which reportedly attracted a large number of people including Kashmiri Americans and friends of Kashmir.
Sardar Masood Khan underlined the need for the community to reach out to American people, especially youth, to educate them about the continuing tyranny and atrocities of Indian forces in Jammu & Kashmir.
President Khan highlighted the plight of Kashmiris facing Indian brutalities on daily basis and said the current scenario in Indian Occupied Kashmir was grave. “India is committing human rights violation besides perpetrating crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing and genocide of Kashmiri people,” he added.
The president underscored that the United States was pivotal in the international system, a permanent member of United Nations Security Council and a promoter and protectors of human rights and can play an key role in resolving this long-standing issue.
Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, Secretary General, World Kashmir Awareness Forum, speaking on the occasion, said the people of Kashmir face the kind and extent of suffering that had not been inflicted on any other people in that part of the world.
He held the Indian cruelty and the indifference of the international community responsible for the plight of the Kashmiri people suffering at the hands of the Indian forces for the last 70 years.
“As unarmed peace-loving Kashmiri civilians continue to be massacred, India draws strength and encouragement from the passivity and inaction of the international community,” he said and added that the world powers need to know that uncertainty over Kashmir will lead not only India and Pakistan to disaster, but it will also destroy any possibility of bringing peace and stability to Afghanistan.
Former Senator (Dr.) Akbar Khawaja pleaded that the right of self-determination of the people of Kashmir has the international sanctity because of the multiple resolutions that were adopted at the United Nations Security Council. The time had come that one of the oldest issues on the agenda of the Security Council “ Kashmir “ need to be resolved in accordance with the wishes and will of the people.
Those who spoke on the occasion included Arif Khan, Sardar Zubair Khan, Sardar Zarif Khan and Sardar Zulfiqar, Sardar Roshan Khan. The event was hosted by Raja Liaqat Kiyani, businessman from Maryland at his residence which is known as Kashmir House.