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ISLAMABAD, (MANEND NEWS): Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah
Mahmood Qureshi has reiterated Pakistan’s complete solidarity with
the people of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK)
and assured the Kashmiri brothers and sisters that the Government
and the people of Pakistan stood united with them.
“Pakistan will not relent in its support until the Kashmiris realize their
legitimate right to self-determination in accordance with the United
Nations Security Council resolutions,” the foreign minister said in a
message for August 5 to mark Youm-e-Istehsal.
Foreign Minister Qureshi said Pakistan called upon the international
community to hold India accountable for its crimes against the
Kashmiris and demanded that India reversed its illegal and unilateral
actions of August 5, 2019, revoke draconian laws, cease all human
rights violations, and stop its state-terrorism against the people of
IIOJK.
“On this day today, marking twenty-four months since India’s illegal
and unilateral actions of 5 August 2019, we honour sacrifices of
Kashmiris and salute their indomitable spirit in their just struggle for
inalienable right to self-determination,” he said.
In violation of the United Nations Security Council resolutions on
Jammu and Kashmir and of international law, the foreign minister said
India tried to obliterate the distinct identity of the Kashmiri people.
“India hoped that by attempting to alter demographic structure of
Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IIOJK), it could dampen
the spirit of the Kashmiri people or at the very least, make them
compromise on their legitimate right to self-determination. On both
counts, India has abjectly failed. These steps were forcefully rejected
by Pakistan, the Kashmiris, and the international community,” he
further added.
Shah Mahmood Qureshi said the unabated Indian repression, including
extra-judicial killings of innocent Kashmiris, unprecedented restrictions
on freedom of speech, fake encounters, cordon-and-search operations,
custodial torture and deaths, enforced disappearances, incarceration of
the Kashmiri leadership and youth, use of pellet guns, destruction and
burning of houses, and other methods of subjugation had miserably
failed to shake the resolve of the Kashmiri people.
The Jammu and Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan has been
on the agenda of UN Security Council since 1948, he said, adding it
remained an internationally recognized dispute, the solution of which
was firmly anchored in the relevant UN Security Council resolutions in
accordance with the UN Charter and the wishes of the people of
Kashmir.
The foreign minister said regrettably, India had not fulfilled its
commitments to the UN Security Council, Pakistan, international
community and the Kashmiri people. “The international community,
human rights organizations, international media and the civil society
have called India out on its tyranny in the region. World leaders and
parliamentarians have expressed concern and shown their support for
the Kashmiris,” he added.
Shah Mahmooq Qureshi further said more than 1.5 billion people of
the region deserved to see the dawn of peace and prosperity which
had been held hostage to the gross and systematic violations of
human rights in IIOJK.