57-day lockdown in Kashmir a human catastrophe in offing: NA Speaker

ISLAMABAD, Oct 01 (APP):National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser Tuesday said that 57 days of lockdown in Indian Occupied Kashmir had converted the valley into a virtual jail and the situation in Kashmir valley was at the verge of a human catastrophe.

He asked for Malaysian support for resolution of Kashmir issue in accordance with the aspirations of people of Kashmir and the United Nations resolutions.

The NA speaker was talking to Tan Sri Dato Mohamad Ariff Bin Md Yusuf, Speaker of Malaysian House of Representatives during a meeting held at the Parliament House. The Malaysian delegation is visiting Pakistan on the invitation of Speaker National Assembly.

Speaker Asad Qaiser said that Occupied Jammu and Kashmir was the unfinished agenda of the partition plan of Sub-Continent and leaving the Kashmir dispute unresolved had brought the peace of the region at stake. He said that continued denial of the due right to Kashmiri people for decades and recent unilateral succession of State of Jammu and Kashmir with Indian mainland had exposed the undemocratic outlook of India.