President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJ&K) Sardar Masood Khan while lauding the role of Malaysian people and the government led by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad for all-out support to the people of Jammu and Kashmir in the aftermath of August 5, 2019 has said that entire Pakistan, especially Kashmiris, are indebted to the Malaysian nation and the government.
He said this while talking to a nine-member Malaysian delegation, which led by Mohd Azmi Abdul Hamid, President of Malaysian Consultative Council for Islamic Organization (MAPIM), met him here at Kashmir House on Tuesday.
The AJK President saluted the Malaysian leadership for firm and principled stance on the issue of the Indian-occupied Kashmir (IoK) despite Indian government's threat to cut imports of palm oil, aluminum, gas and computer equipment from Malaysia in retaliation for its principled position on Kashmir. The AJK President said that the Malaysian Prime Minister had rightly characterized India's action in the IoK as "invasion and occupation."
Khan also commended Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's criticism of the new citizenship law in India designed to discriminate Muslims. The Malaysian Prime Minister, he said, has rightly pointed out that "people in India are dying because of this law." The President said that India wants to remold the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir and now the whole of India as a Hindu nation wants to crush Kashmiri Muslims and relegate the status of Indian Muslims to aliens.
President Masood thanked the efforts of Mohd Azmi Abdul Hamid for highlighting the Jammu and Kashmir dispute in Malaysia and ASEAN countries and lauded his efforts to establish closer ties between Azad Kashmir and Malaysia. He deeply appreciated that the MAPIM President had delivered lectures on the subject of Kashmir in over 50 mosques and several universities in Malaysia.
Azmi Abdul Hamid said that Malaysia, in collaboration with Azad Kashmir, would establish a cultural center in Muzaffarabad. This, he said, would be the flagship project of AJK and Malaysian cooperation.
He added that MAPIM would also explore possibilities of trade ties between Azad Kashmir and Malaysia.
Sardar Masood Khan thanked the MAPIM for establishing the "Malaysia-Kashmir" group led by Mohammad Fadhil bin Yusni, Coordinator Malaysia-Kashmir Youth Forum, under the umbrella of MAPIM.
Welcoming the Youth Forum's initiatives, President Masood Khan said that this is a giant step towards raising awareness on the plight of the Kashmiri youth in IOJK. He informed the MAPIM delegation that in IOJK according to the National Indian Federation of Women, 13,000 Kashmiri boys, some of them as young as 9 to 12 years old, have been abducted and incarcerated in concentration camps in IOJK or have been transferred to the most notorious jails in India, where they are being subjugated to inhumane torture.
The MAPIM President apprised the AJK President that a media group would also be formed to help fully understand the true history of this dispute. The President was also informed that Kashmir cultural events would also be organized in Malaysia and a series of conferences would be held in Kuala Lumpur and other ASEAN countries, including one in Bangkok. The ASEAN and world youth parliaments would be mobilized to pass resolutions that could be brought to the attention of relevant national parliaments and cabinets of the relevant countries. This activity would be in addition to the ASEAN advocacy groups that have been established under the auspices of MAPIM.
Talking about linkages between AJK and Malaysia, Azmi said that linkages would be made between the mosques in Azad Kashmir and Malaysia. One such mosque would be identified in Muzaffarabad. He proposed that trade between AJK and Malaysia could cover food, tourism, hospitality and the Halal meat industry. The President said that this scope could be widened to include Kashmiri products and handicrafts such as Pashmina shawls, wooden handicrafts, papier-mache products, precious stones, horticulture, agriculture and fruits (apples, apricot, walnuts and mangoes).
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