NWFP Senior Minister and Provincial Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Amir Siraj-ul-Haq has said that peace is impossible in South Asia without resolving Kashmir issue while leadership of both Pakistan and India should keep in mind that this imbroglio can only be settled for good when the Kashmiris are practically involved and their wishes translated accordingly.
He was talking to a delegation of Kashmiri elite led by AJK JI Secretary General Raja Jehangir Khan at Islamabad, and discussed with him matters about Kashmir issue and the problems in various parts of NWFP.
The delegation comprising Nisar Ahmad Shaliq, Mehmud Ahmad Sharif and Irqam Bashir.
Sirajul Haq reaffirmed that Pakistani nation would not leave Kashmiris alone at any juncture and would extend their full support till they emerge triumphant in their freedom struggle.
He called upon the Indian rulers to avoid traditional intransigence and fulfil promises made with the Kashmiri people.
While paying rich tributes to Kashmiris on their spirit of freedom, the NWFP senior minister said they rendered matchless sacrifices for achieving their inborn right that had to touch its ultimate goal of freedom.
He regretted India was continuously pursuing the policy of hegemony and delaying tactics, while it always ignored to implement resolutions of the UN and its promise of holding plebiscite in Kashmir as well as declaring Kashmir as its integral part.
Siraj deplored that India had forcefully occupied Kashmir that could not be justified in any shape. He said India had in fact seized freedom of Kashmir that was worse form of terrorism in the world.
Meanwhile, the senior minister visited PIMS Islamabad and enquired about the health of ailing PRO Rashid Mehmud Turab of Al-Khair University, Mirpur, who is admitted there.
AJK JI Secretary General Raja Jehangir Khan accompanied him while Abdul Hameed Karimi, chairman, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Movement; and Khawaja Muhammad Aslam, GS JKLM were also present on the occasion. Sirajul Haq also enquired about the health of other patients in the hospital and prayed for their early recovery.