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Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser has said that the Indian government had deprived its citizens specially the people of Kashmir of their right to Identity through legal means.

The Speaker said that by revoking Articles 370 and 35A from the Indian Constitution to deprive the Kashmiri people of their legitimate right of identity. He said that the worst lockdown of history has been ongoing in the entire valley for the last 182 days, the entire Kashmiri leadership was in prison and Media is also strictly banned to suppress the voice of the Kashmiri people. He expressed these views while addressing a ceremony organized by the Private Schools Association in connection with Kashmir Solidarity Day at F-9 Park, Islamabad on Tuesday.

The Speaker said that the people and Parliament of Pakistan had always stood with the people of Kashmir and will continue moral, diplomatic and political support to them till the logical end of the Kashmir issue. He said that atrocities of Indian Armed Forces on the Kashmiri people would be raised at global and regional forums. The Speaker said that the people of Kashmir were compelled to live miserable life in extreme winter due to the ongoing lockdown in valley as they were deprived of all basic necessities of life, including food, medicine and fuel.

The Speaker stressed upon world community to take immediate notice of the ongoing situation in occupied Kashmir and pressurized India for the immediate end of the ongoing lockdown in the valley. He said that the only option to solve the problem of Kashmir was plebiscite in the held valley according to the United National (UN) Security Council resolutions.

Speaker Asad Qaiser said that Pakistan's parliament had always stood with the people of Kashmir and forcefully highlighted the Kashmir issue at all the parliamentary forums. He said that two days will be allotted to discuss the latest situation in occupied Kashmir in the current session of the National Assembly and in light of that debate; a unanimous resolution will be adopted against the lockdown and Indian atrocities in the valley. He called upon the Pakistani nation and media to actively participate in Kashmir solidarity day to express solidarity with their Kashmiri brethren.

Earlier, the Speaker also participated in the walk to express the solidarity with people of Kashmir. The Federal Minister for Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan Ali Amin Khan Gandapur also accompanied him. The walk was attended by the Students of the private schools of Islamabad, the teachers, civil society and media representatives and the political leadership of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Later, the Speaker inaugurated paintings exhibition of Indian atrocities on Kashmiri people at the Quaid-e-Awan, F-9 Park Islamabad.

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