ISLAMABAD: All Parties Conference on Friday demanded of the government to set support on Kashmir in the United Nations (UN) as standard of friendship or enmity.
While addressing to the All Parties Conference in Islamabad, Sirajul Haq lambasted on India for declaring Kashmir liberation movement as terrorism. He said all political and religious parties were with the people of Kashmir in their struggle for freedom and right to self determination.
The JI leader said that Kashmiris determination for freedom compelled India to hold defensive position. He urged the government to launch a diplomatic war on Kashmir against India and suggested to send parliamentary delegations across the world to get international support and notify Indian atrocities in the occupied Kashmir.
Sirajul Haq demanded of the government to call international conference on Kashmir and table the issue in the Parliament. He urged the Centre to take immediate measures to call UN and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meetings on Kashmir. Haq demanded of the government to interlink dialogues with India on dialogues on Kashmir. He asked the government to follow the four point agenda presented by Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
He said that UN become an deaf and dumb organization to Kashmir issue and warned that the cool war on Kashmir could be changed into nuclear war. Haq said that resolution of Kashmir issue essential for regional peace.
The JI leader said that India had broken all records of atrocity in the occupied Kashmir. He said India itself confessed that army killed at least 60 Kashmiri people in recent incidents of violence and more than 200 children, women and youth lost their eyesight by pellet guns used by oppressive forces. He lashed out at international community and leaders of human right organization over their silence on Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir.
Haq said Kashmir is an unfinished agenda of the subcontinent and added that Pakistan is incomplete without Kashmir. He said that it was needed to raise the voice of Kashmiri people in a better way before the world. He continued that Pakistan should play a leading role towards resolution of Kashmir.
Haq accused the government of not discharging its duties to resolve the Kashmir issue, adding that the government should have apprised the world community of the recent wave of atrocities of the occupation forces but it failed. Sirajul Haq said JI had requested the government to hold an APC for evolving a common stance on the issue but government did not deem it necessary.
He demanded of the government to play its role to unite the national leadership to evolve a firm and unanimous policy on Kashmir which could not be changed with the change of governments.
Jamiat-i-Ulema-i-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said in the APC proved that nation’s heart beat with the people of Kashmir. He said Kashmiris’ sacrifices wrote a new history of freedom movement. He said UN resolutions gave Kashmiris’ their right to self determination.
Jamaat-ud-Dawa Ameer Hafiz Saeed demanded of the government to suspend every type of trade and relations with India until the freedom of Kashmir.
Former Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said that Kashmiris had been sacrificing their lives for last 70 years and added that they were fighting the war for completion of Pakistan.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Chairman Raja Zaffar ul haq, Pakistan Muslim Leaque- Quaid-e-Azam (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, Federal Minister for Railway Khawaja Saad Rafique, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) AJK President Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry, renowned politician Makhdoom Muhammad Javed Hashmi, JI Secretary General Liaqat Baloch, Senate former Chairman Nayyar Hussain Bukhari, Faisal Karim Kundi of Pakistan People’s Party, Naeemul Haque of PTI, Muslim League-Zia President Ijaz-ul-Haq, Shaikh Rasheed of Awami Muslim League, Jamaat-ud-Dawa President Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP) President Sahibzada Abul Khair and other prominent leaders were present in the APC, called by JI.
