India getting isolated: Shehryar Afridi
Islamabad: – Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir Shehryar Khan Afridi said that Narendra Modi’s expansionist agenda had been exposed to the world and it can no more keep its occupation of Jammu and Kashmir.
He expressed these views while addressing one-day seminar held here with regard to Black Day titled “Kashmir’s Prolonged Military Occupation: Lessons from history and the way forward”. Legal Forum For Oppressed Voices of Kashmir (LFoVK) had organised the event.
Justice (R) Ali Nawaz Chohan presided the event while Chairman Kashmir Committee Shehryar Khan Afridi was chief guest of the event.
Referring to the recent remarks of US President Donald Trump about India, Shehryar Afridi said Trump’s remarks were a diplomatic snub for Modi as India was facing international isolation.
Shehryar Afridi said that the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia reflected failure of United Nations Security Council in resolution of territorial conflicts and Kashmir could spark a new war between Pakistan and India if the United Nations failed to play its due role in resolving Kashmir dispute. He added that the United Nations needed to learn from the fate of League of Nations. He said that the UN is also fast losing its purpose and Kashmir resolution was its biggest test. He said that the countries were heading towards new confrontation and wars which depicted failure of the UN.
He said that the world needed to take notice of the crimes against humanity were being carried out by fascist regime of Narendra Modi under the influence of terrorist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) which wanted to make India into a Hindu Rashtra.
He said that India was imposing hybrid war on Pakistan and for the past three days, Indian media was involved in spreading fake news to malign Pakistan. He said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf government and Prime Minister Imran Khan had exposed the falsehood of India.
President Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) Sardar Masood Khan Kashmiri leadership had waged a war for independence in 1947 and got the AJK freed from the occupational forces of India.
He said that tribemen had taken part in the freedom movement along with their Kashmiri brethren. He said that state of AJK had been liberated as a base camp for the freedom struggle of Kashmir.
He said that October 26 hence is remembered as Day of Solidarity between the peoples of Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir.
He said that first genocide of Kashmiris had been at hands of Indian forces in Jammu soon after the partition of the subcontinent.
He also trashed the Indian insistence that Kashmir is a bilateral issue between Pakistan and India and said that Kashmir is an international issue and any dialogue must be held under the auspices of United Nations as the UN had guaranteed Kashmir resolution.
Ambassador (R) Abdul Basit said that there was a dire need for Pakistan to continue with its longstanding and consistent stance on Kashmir dispute.
He called for appointing a special envoy on Jammu and Kashmir as Prime Minister and Foreign Minister may not have adequate time to focus on Kashmir.
He urged Prime Minister Imran Khan to back actions with rhetoric on Kashmir. He said that Pakistan cannot afford to engage India bilaterally on Kashmir as India is not willing to budge an inch from its stance on Kashmir.
He said that Kashmiris are ready to make any sacrifice but Pakistan needs to take a decision whether its resolve is as strong as of Kashmiris.
Dr Khalid Rehman, Director Institute of Peace Studies, said that Kashmiris had rendered unmatched sacrifices for freedom of Kashmir and the resilience of the Kashmiri people can’t be occupied by force. He said national consensus was a must for building a narrative on Kashmir issue.
Dr Mubeen Shah, former president of Jammu and Kashmir Chambers of Commerce, Srinagar, said that India cannot change the status of Kashmir despite its brutal occupation.
Addressing through video link, Dr Mubeen said that India has willfully destroyed economy in Occupied Kashmir.
He said that under a systematic genocide, Indian regime was handing over Kashmiri properties to people from mainland India. He suggested that a third country needs to take Kashmir issue to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the model of the issue of Rohingiya Muslims. He called for establishing a government in exile to internationalise the Kashmir dispute.
