Abbasi vows diplomatic support for Kashmir cause

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said on Wednesday that Pakistan would always continue its political, moral and diplomatic support to the people of Kashmir.

While addressing the joint session of the AJK Legislative Assembly, the premier said the people of held Kashmir have been resisting against the illegal occupation of the Indian forces for the past seven decades.

Indian forces martyred twenty Kashmiri including civilians in occupied Srinagar, the main city of the region. Four civilians were also martyred and dozens injured when police opened fire on thousands of demonstrators who poured onto the streets.

20 killed as fighting rages across held Kashmir

Despite a clear resolution of the United Nations Security Council that calls for a plebiscite in occupied Kashmir, so as to let them decide their future. He however regretted that India reneged on its pledge.

Abbasi further said the only solution of the Kashmir dispute was plebiscite would be done in occupied Kashmir adding that the UN Security Council Resolutions provide the real grounds for the resolution of dispute between Pakistan and India.

Terming the human rights violations in held Kashmir, the prime minister said that blood and the sacrifices of the valiant Kashmiris would not go waste. By cutting communication means like internet, cellular services and imposing curfew, Indian forces would not stop their struggle for right to self-determination, Abbasi added.

The prime minister condemned the human rights violations against the unarmed civilian protestors and said the brutalities of the Indian army find no match, as they even resort to firing over funerals of the martyrs, leading to injuries to over 200 people.

Earlier on Tuesday, Director General of Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Asif Ghafoor, while commenting on Kashmir issue, said that the people of disputed territory was struggling for their right of freedom and their movement was not terrorism meanwhile the entire world had seen what had happened in Kashmir.