AJK PM asks national leadership, media to evolve consensus, unanimity on Kashmir

MIRPUR (AJK): Oct. 28 (APP):AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan Sunday called upon the national political leadership, the political parties and the media to focus on promoting the Kashmir cause by evolving a consensus, unanimous and strong stance.
Talking to media persons, he said Maqbool Bhat, Ashfaq Majeed Wani, Afzal Guru and Burhan Wani were the bright stars of the Kashmir liberation struggle.
The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) prime minister underscored the need of evolving an effective strategy on Kashmir taking the Hurriyat leadership into confidence.
India, he said, was misleading the world that Kashmir was an issue between India and Pakistan, altogether ignoring Kashmiris who were the fundamental party of the conflict, which was also an unfinished agenda of the United Nations.
Farooq Haider said the first dialogue on the Kahmir issue was held between Pakistan’s first Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan and his Indian counterpart Pandit Nehru. Z A Bhutto and his Indian counterpart also held talks on Kashmir and since then there had been countless rounds of dialogue at foreign ministers and foreign secretaries level between the two countries, which could not yield any meaningful result so far mainly because of Indian intransigence.
“Every Kashmiri knows well about the worst ever atrocities, let loose by Indian forces in the held valley. There is an atmosphere of terror in the IoK (Indian occupied Kashmir). Armless Kashmiri daughters and sons combat the guns of occupation forces merely by stones. They have already rendered unmatched sacrifices of men and material. Their educational institutions have been destroyed by military, women raped and gang-raped, and children and elderly being martyred but these cruelties cannot not cool down the Kashmiris’ passion for freedom,” he said.
To a question, Farooq Haider said India was not allowing fact finding missions, human rights organizations or media teams into the valley.
“India used chemical weapons in Kashmir and did not spare even pregnant women,” he said adding that the youth were subjected to third degree violence after stripping them nude.
He said India introduced pellet guns in a bid to terrorize Kashmiris. It turned thousand of youths blind with the use of pellet guns but it further emboldened the Kashmiris who were now ready to do or die, he added.
Farooq Haider said Modi was a murderer of Kashmiris whose thinking and policies were just like Israel.
Describing the situation of the held valley, he said an environment of fear prevailed there. The puppet administration had no courage to hold any official programme in open air for fear of attack of freedom fighters.
“There is no concept of free media in IoK. Indian electronic media is on payroll of Indian forces and it carries forward their policies,” he said.
He said Kashmiris did not get justice from the Indian judiciary which was biased. Citing the example of Afzal Guru, he said the Indian court admitted that nothing could be proved against Guru but even then he was hanged.
Farooq Haider said a strong and stable Pakistan was imperative for Kashmir liberation struggle.
He said his helicopter was intentionally attacked by Indian forces at the Line of Control.