A youth delegation from Indian Held Kashmir (IHK) on Monday visited the Army Public School (APS) Peshawar. Members of the delegation said terrorists attack on school strongly denounced across the occupied Kashmir, and Kashmiris were standby with Pakistan.
Head of the delegation, Shaista Safi from Baramullah, Indian Occupied Kashmir, while speaking at a press conference at press club here, said terrorists attack on Army public School in Peshawar resonated far and wide across the IHK, where people had expressed deep affinity with Pakistan.
Youth Forum from Kashmir (YFK), Pakistan's largest pro-Kashmir lobbying group, led by young Kashmiri, and Pakistanis, organised the visit to the APS, laid a floral wreath at front of the school, where the walls have turned into a living memorial to the 142 martyrs of the terrorists attack.
The youth delegation expressed sympathy and condolences with bereaved families, during an informal meeting with them. The visiting Kashmiri youth delegation, she added, YFK activists, all young men and women, also placed two banners on the school walls in Urdu and English, with slogan read as "Kashmiris standby with Pakistan. The Pakistani nation will defeat its enemies."
Accompanied by members of youth delegation, Syeda Maria Ateeq, Syed Qudsiya Mashadi, Javaz Ahmad, Muhammad Hassaan, Zaman Bajwa and Misbah Maria, Ms Safi with assistance of multi-media, showed different slides of pictures regarding Kashmiri protests, and denunciation against the terrorists attack on APS, and held candle lit vigil and funeral prayers in absentia schoolchildren and other staff members of the school.
Ms Safi said for last several decades, due to occupation of Indian forces in the territory, Kashmiris were being faced with difficulties and bearing barbarism of the occupied troops. She stressed the issue of Kashmir must be resolved according to aspiration and relevant UN resolutions. "We need to move beyond the diplomacy and 'Amaan Ki Aasha', and should take serious steps for amicable resolution of the core issue of the Kashrmir," she emphasised.
Ms Safi said trilateral dialogue process between both Indian, Kashimiri, and Pakistani leaders' along with other stakeholders is the best effort for settlement of the Kashmir issue, but it must be consisted and firm commitment to resolve the issue as per wishes of the Kashmiri.