ISLAMABAD: All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir (APHC-AJK) chapter organized a seminar, today, in Islamabad in connection with the Self-Determination Day.
APHC-AJK Convener Mahmood Ahmad Saghar chaired the meeting while Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent, London, Majid Khan was the chief guest.
Convener Mahmood Ahmad Saghar and other speakers highlighting the importance of the resolution adopted by the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan (UNCIP) on Kashmir on January 5, 1949 provides the basis for the freedom struggle of the Kashmiris and recognizes their right to self-determination. They said the Kashmiris have rendered unparalleled sacrifices for securing their right to self-determination and the process continues even today.
The speakers said despite using all the resources India failed to suppress the freedom spirit of the Kashmiris, adding it should create conducive environment for the peaceful settlement of the lingering Kashmir dispute by realizing the ground realities.
They appealed to the United Nations to implement its resolutions regarding Kashmir and urged the international human rights organizations to take notice of the increasing violations of human rights in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The settlement of the Kashmir dispute is imperative for the establishment of permanent peace in South Asia, they added.
The speakers also expressed serious concern over the prevailing situation in the occupied territory and lamented that the Indian troops were killing youth in custody, barging into houses, arresting people, torturing residents, including women and elderly people, and destroying property. They termed India’s repressive actions in occupied Kashmir as illegal, unconstitutional and against the international laws and United Nations resolutions.
At the end, a special prayer was offered for the martyrs of occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
The speakers included Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Self-Determination Movement International, Raja Najabat Hussain, APHC-AJK leaders Muhammad Farooq Rehmani, Sheikh Abdul Mateen, Imtiaz Wani, Mir Tahir Masood, Altaf Hussain Wani, Muhammad Hussain Khateeb, Khursheed Mir, Showkat Ahmed, Sheikh Majid, Syed Mushtaq Gilani and others.
