No Pakistani can breathe sigh of relief until Kashmiris get the right: Bilawal

Islamabad_Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has reiterated the resolve to continue supporting Kashmiris fighting for their just right to self-determination.

In a message on Kashmir day, the premier said: “Every year, on the fifth of February, the people of Pakistan reaffirm their solidarity with their Kashmiri brothers and sisters.”

The premier stressed: “On this Kashmir Solidarity Day, we renew the commitment of our unflinching support to them in their just struggle for the inalienable right to self-determination.

“The Jammu and Kashmir dispute is one of the oldest, unresolved items on the agenda of the United Nations. Over the last seventy-five years, India has continued its illegal occupation of Jammu and Kashmir and suppressed its people.

“Thousands of Kashmiris have sacrificed their lives and suffered countless atrocities at the hands of the Indian Occupation Forces. The already bad situation took a turn for the worst following India’s illegal and unilateral actions of 5 August 2019. These illegal and unilateral steps have been rejected by Pakistan and the Kashmiris.

He continued: “The human rights situation in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IIOJK) remains a source of grave concern to Pakistan and the rest of the world. India has brazenly targeted Kashmiri men, women and children through curfews, blackouts, arbitrary detention, imprisonment, and denial of basic rights. The popular Kashmiri political leadership has been illegally detained or deliberately victimized through fictitious cases. The media has been silenced through coercion and religious scholars have been arrested. Draconian laws have been enacted that deny the fundamental freedoms of the Kashmiri people.

“India has also intensified its campaign to bring about demographic changes in IIOJK, so as to convert the Kashmiris into a minority in their own land. These actions are in violation of UNSC resolutions and international law, including the 4th Geneva Convention.

“India is mistaken if it believes it can crush the iron will of the Kashmiri people. No amount of state terrorism, unleashed by Indian Occupation Forces, can break the will of the Kashmiris or undermine their legitimate struggle.  We urge India to honour its commitments made to Pakistan, the UN and, above all, the Kashmiri people.

“On behalf of the entire Pakistani nation, I want to assure our Kashmiri brothers and sisters that we stand shoulder to shoulder with them. We will continue to lend moral, diplomatic and political support to their just cause until they attain freedom from Indian oppression. Pakistan will also continue to raise its voice at all international platforms and highlight India’s barbaric actions in IIOJK.”

Earlier,

Foreign Minister and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that Kashmir is the Jagular vein of Pakistan and no Pakistani can breathe a sigh of relief until Kashmiris get the right to self-determination.

In a statement issued on Saturday, the PPP chairman on the Kashmir Solidarity Day said that the moral, political, moral and diplomatic support will continue for the Kashmiri people from Pakistan against the Indian atrocities and serious violations of human rights in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

He said that the day the international community moves forward to abide by the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council regarding the occupied valley, will be the day of victory for Kashmiris.

The foreign minister said that peace and development in the region were suffering from instability for the past seven decades due to the Kashmir issue, for which the people have been paying the price in the form of poverty and backwardness.

Mr. Zardari said that in the form of Modi government, India’s war frenzy has now crossed all limits, the first target of which is Indian minorities, especially Muslims adding that his Party was founded on the Kashmir issue, whose founder Quaid-e-Awam Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, had stated that I cannot make a mistake even in my sleep on the issue and we are ready to fight for a thousand years for Kashmir.

He said that martyred former PM Benazir Bhutto had decided to observe Kashmir Solidarity Day on the national level on February 5 every year to express solidarity with the people of the occupied valley during her tenure and today, due to this initiative, Pakistanis all over the world are observing Kashmir Solidarity Day and humanist people and organizations support Kashmiris and condemn Indian oppression.

He said that President Asif Ali Zardari had not only raised the slogan of Pakistan Khappay but he has also been raising the slogan of Kashmir Khappay.

The PPP chairman saluted the martyrs who sacrificed their lives during the struggle for self-determination in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) for seven decades and the Kashmiris who resisted Indian oppression adding that their sacrifices will not go in vain. The time has come for the struggle of the Kashmiri people to bear fruit, he added.