Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider on Saturday regretted 76 days of curfew in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) and called for practical steps to ensure freedom for the Kashmiris.
Addressing a Asma Jehangir conference, Raja Farooq said nothing concrete had been done by Pakistan government except seminars and speeches. He criticized the government for doing nothing except putting a demand to lift the curfew from the IOK.
The AJK premier said the pain Kashmiris had been suffering from curfew and the implementation of the India Prime Minister Modi evil plan could not be described in words and added will the Kashmiris get freedom by mere lifting the curfew. He said if Pakistan really wanted to take any practical step to ensure exercise of the right to self determination it should present face of Kashmiris at international front. Raja said Pakistan was required to change its policy on Kashmir as we have nothing to lose and added we will either perish or get freedom.
He said the conflict between Pakistan and India was not IOK as it was matter of freedom and Pakistan was on the side of Kashmiris. He feared if India was not stopped from his nefarious designs then the Kashmir will not be the Kashmir within next ten years and added, "Leave us alone if you cannot do anything practical we will do it at our own.
Former foreign minister Hina Khar said Pakistan must not lose high moral ground it had been standing on the Kashmir issue. She said Modi had been a mock to his own state, constitution and the people.
Former defence minister Khurram Dastagir addressing the conference said Pakistan had been doing its best to establish peace and added peace in Afghanistan guaranteed peace in Pakistan but for establishment of peace both the countries needed to respect sovereignty of each other. He said although Pakistan and Afghanistan were intertwined for 40 decades, however, there had been mistrust despite presence of millions of Afghans in Pakistan.
Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party's leader Mahmood Khan Achakzai said Afghan conflict is still to resolve and people of Afghanistan deserve for noble prize for defending their homeland. He said Afghan fought with the rest of the world community for their independence and sovereignty and except atomic bomb every kind of weapon was used against them.
Afghan women's rights activist Fawzia Koofi and Afghan political analyst Omar Zakhilwal also spoke the conference.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2019
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