ISLAMABAD: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistan Chief Sirajul Haq on Saturday emphasised the need to reorganise Kashmir freedom movement at local and international levels through aggressive lobbying.
Haq during separate meetings with the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President, Sardar Masood Khan and Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haidar Khan here, stressed the need for the government of Pakistan to make all out effort in Muslim-majority countries to utilise the services Pakistani and Kashmiri diaspora in highlighting the Kashmir issue at the global front.
During the meeting, the leaders discussed latest situation in Kashmir and expressed regret over silence of the international community on human rights abuses in the Indian held region.
Senator Siraj emphasised the need to reorganise Kashmir freedom movement at local and international levels through lobbying.
He said Islamabad should make decisive decision to ensure the freedom of Kashmiri people from the yoke of India.
He said Kashmir situation had entered a “now or never” phase and if the Pakistani government failed to make a bold decision, it would permanently lose the area to India.
The JI chief said the BJP government had already started implementing its plan of providing residential certificates to the Hindu extremists, and was bent upon changing the demography of the region.
He said Modi’s plan to turn Muslim majority into a minority could succeed, if proper strategy was not developed to check it.
He said if New Delhi’s plan was not countered through pre-emptive measures in Srinagar, it could start making claims on Muzaffarabad. He said Pakistani rulers should stop doing lip service for Kashmir, and take bold decisions for the cause.
He said the country would turn into a barren land, if Pakistan failed to attain Kashmir.
The JI chief paid tribute to the services of Hurriat leader Syed Ali Gilani and others for their decades’ long struggle against Indian occupation.
He assured the people of AJK and India held area that the JI was standing shoulder-to-shoulder in their freedom struggle against India. He said the JI and the people of Pakistan were ready to make every sacrifice for their Kashmir brethren.
He said that political mobilisation was a key factor in raising the profile of the Kashmir dispute, in helping stop the illegal settlement of non-state Hindus and the massacre of Kashmiris in the IOJK.
“Through political and diplomatic efforts, we must transform the Kashmir issue into an international movement, which the global community cannot overlook,” he maintained.
The JI chief discussed the latest situation of the AJK and occupied Kashmir with the prime minister of Azad Kashmir, and Indian forces’ firing from across the Line of Control on the civil population of Azad Kashmir. The JI chief expressed serious concern over the grave situation in occupied Kashmir after August 5, 2019, and added that all political forces of Pakistan were on the same page on Kashmir issue, and they would continue their support to the legitimate struggle of the Kashmiri people who had been facing worst kind of atrocities at the hands of brute Indian forces.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2020
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