Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Ali Amin Gandapur on Tuesday urged international community, Muslim Ummah and human rights organisations all over the world to play their due role in stopping the bloodshed in Occupied Kashmir at the hands of Indian forces.
Speaking at a seminar on "Kashmir Solidarity Day" at Aiwan-e-Sadr in Islamabad, he said India has been committing atrocities in Occupied Kashmir at large scale for several decades. He said that Kashmiris are rendering unmatched sacrifices to achieve their birth right of self-determination.
He said Pakistan will continue its moral, political, and diplomatic support for the people of Kashmir in their just struggle for right to self-determination.
"The whole nation will stand by people of Indian occupied Kashmir (IoK) till they achieve their legitimate right to self-determination," he maintained.
Information Minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain called upon India to come to the dialogue table to find-out a peaceful solution to the Kashmir dispute.
He said Kashmir is a human issue rather a dispute over territory and India should understand this fact.
He said India should immediately repeal the black laws in Occupied Kashmir as it cannot suppress the indigenous freedom struggle of the people of Kashmir.
Chaudhry said that Indian regime has deployed one soldier against every ten Kashmiris making the occupied territory as the most militarised region in the world.
The minister said Pakistan has openly invited India to come to the negotiating table for normalization, but Kashmir will be the central point of any dialogue with New Delhi.
He said, "We are foreseeing a resolution of Kashmir issue as per aspirations of the people of the held territory".
Meanwhile, in their separate messages, President Dr Arif Alvi and Prime Minister Imran Khan, in their separate messages on Kashmir Solidarity Day, reassured their Kashmiri brethren that Pakistan will remain consistent in its principled position on Kashmir issue.
In his message on Kashmir Solidarity Day, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi reaffirmed Pakistan's unflinching support to the brave people of Occupied Kashmir in their just and legitimate struggle for self-determination against wrongful Indian occupation.
He said India's consistent denial of this right recognized by the United Nations Security Council resolutions is a telling example of impunity. The human rights violations in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir are a blot on the conscience of humanity and demand immediate corrective action by the international community.
He said the reports of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Jammu and Kashmir and the UK's All Parties Parliamentary Kashmir Group (APPKG) have lifted the veil off decades of obfuscation by India of massive human rights violations and unspeakable crimes against humanity in the held valley.
The foreign minister said Pakistan remains committed to finding a just and peaceful resolution to this long standing dispute. Our principled position on the Jammu and Kashmir dispute is based on none other than the United Nations Security Council resolutions. These resolutions provide for the final disposition of Jammu and Kashmir dispute through a free and impartial plebiscite under the auspices of the United Nations.
He said Jammu & Kashmir is the core dispute between Pakistan and India. The dream of peace and prosperity of the people of this region will remain elusive without resolving this dispute in accordance with the aspirations of its people. He said the world community should not forget its obligation towards the people of Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir and understand that continued apathy to the sufferings of the Kashmiri people could have disastrous consequences not only for the region but potentially for the world at large.
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