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AJK PM asks New Delhi to halt military operation in IoK    

MIRPUR (AJK): Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan has asked New Delhi to halt milita
Published June 23, 2018 Updated June 23, 2018 07:36pm

MIRPUR (AJK): Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan has asked New Delhi to halt military operation in occupied Kashmir and allow the people of Jammu and Kashmir to decide their fate through democratic and peaceful means.

“We can weigh the option to allow our people to cross the LoC and enter into the part of Kashmir under Indian occupation if India continues with its repressive policies in the occupied territory,” Prime Minister Haider told UK based Pakistani and Kashmiri media at Luton city of United Kingdom, a message received here Saturday said.

Since there was no sanctity of the bloody Line of Control in Jammu & Kashmir for the population of the state, the people of AJK could be allowed to cross Line of Control (LoC) to help their brothers and sisters under oppression if unrelenting carnage and tyranny in Indian occupied Kashmir by New Delhi does not end, Haider said.

Saying that Indian Army was implementing Modi’s doctrine by eliminating Muslims of Kashmir with the calculated aim to change the demography of Muslim Majority in Jammu and Kashmir, the AJK Prime Minister said Indian nefarious designs would not be allowed to materialize.

Commenting on recently released report of the United Nations Commission for Human Rights, he said it was a matter of great satisfaction that the United Nations for the first time clearly mentioned serious violation of human rights in Indian held Kashmir in its report.

He also highly appreciated the suggestion of human rights commission to constitute a probe commission to investigate the rights violation in the held valley.

He said earlier India had rejected the UN's proposal for probe commission and did not allow a fact finding mission to visit Indian occupied Kashmir to investigate the rights violation in the held valley.

The AJK prime minister also strongly condemned the murder of the editor of Rising Kashmir Shujaat Bukhari, whom he described as a strong voice for the oppressed people of Jammu and Kashmir, which had been a silenced.

He said that his government would welcome any international organisation or UNHRC to visit the liberated area and assess the human right situation.

He also urged overseas Kashmiri to redouble their efforts to highlight the Kashmir issue and plight of the people of occupied Jammu & Kashmir.

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