Lahore: Experts on Sunday while describing July 19 as an important day in the history of Kashmir, have said that in 1947, the people of Jammu and Kashmir had decided to accede to Pakistan even before the partition of subcontinent. Talking to reporter in connection with” Youm-e-Ilhaq-e-Pakistan”, they said that Kashmir was an international dispute on the agenda of United Nations, the only fair solution of which was to provide the Kashmiri people with their right to self-determination in accordance with the UN Security Council resolutions.
They said Pakistan would continue to extend its unwavering ethical, political, diplomatic and moral support until the people of Jammu and Kashmir were able to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination. PPP MNA Sehar Kamran while talking to reporter appreciated the Kashmiris stance of fighting for justice and liberation as they struggle against the brutal and illegal actions of the Hindutva Supremacist Indian government in IIOJK. “We commemorate the historic occasion of Youm-i-Ilhaq-i-Pakistan, when Kashmiris passed a resolution for accession to Pakistan,’ she said, adding that the people of Kashmir were at the mercy of despotic and tyrant Indian military who were suffering the most.
Question is that how long the innocent Kashmiris would be looking to ask the world to come forward for an open-hearted settlement of this long and outstanding dispute,’ she added. To a question, she said that Kashmiri and Pakistanis shared the same destiny and that was why Quaid-i-Azam had declared Kashmir jugular vein of Pakistan.
Noted politician and Chairman of the Pakistan-China Institute Mushahid Hussain Syed said that Indian oppression and brutality could not force the Kashmiris to surrender their right to their motherland as the Kashmiris had been guarding their commitment to the accession to Pakistan resolution with unimaginable sacrifices till this day. The time has come to settle the long-standing dispute of Kashmir on humanitarian basis, he said. Negotiations could not continue until the people of Kashmir get their right to self-determination, he observed.
The tight-lip International community should take the cognizance of the plight of the people of (IIOJK), who had been living under complete lockdown as the Kashmiris were living in the largest jail of the world, Mushahid said, adding the blood of innocent Kashmiris, who rendered sacrifices for freedom, would never go in vain. Peace and Culture Organization chairperson and wife of incarcerated Hurriyat leader Yasin Malik, Mushaal Hussein Mullick while talking to reporter said that Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) was an unfinished agenda of realization and Independence of Pakistan. She said the issue would remain the same until the dispute was resolved in accordance with the United Nations Security Council resolutions and aspirations of the people of Kashmir.
While slamming the Modi-led Indian fascist government and its Hindutva ideology, Mushaal said that it was time for the international community to play its practical role for the people of occupied Kashmir. She said that by observing Youm-e-Ilhaq-e-Pakistan on July 19, Kashmiris were once again confirming their total rejection of the Indian rule and reaffirm pledge to continue liberation movement till taking it to its logical conclusion. Mushaal said that it was a good omen that Pakistan was continuously raising and projecting the Kashmir issue at all international fora, adding that it had expedited its diplomatic efforts to appraise the world of the ongoing atrocities in IIOJK.
She condemned India’s ongoing acts of genocide in the region, stating, ‘Anyone who dares to raise the voice of Kashmir on the global stage becomes a target of oppression.’ She asserted that the blood of martyrs would not go in vain and that their sacrifices had only strengthened the resolve of Kashmiri people.