ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Tuesday said that the Indian siege of held Kashmir would not conquer the aspirations of the people of the bleeding valley, and urged the world community to use its leverage on the apartheid state of India to end the one-year-long siege, and give access to international human rights monitors to the occupied territory.

In his message on the completion of one-year siege of held Kashmir at the hands of brutal Indian forces, the PPP chairman reiterated the commitment of PPP founder Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto that "I will never compromise on the Kashmir issue," declaring a thousand years war against India.

As the torch-bearer of "Bhutto-ism", the PPP continues to stand by the Kashmiri brethren, he said. Bilawal said that the RSS-driven Hindutva ideology of apartheid being pursued by the "butcher of Muslims", Modi, would not succeed and the issue of Kashmir would only be resolved through a plebiscite.

"For a peaceful and developing Subcontinent, resolution of Kashmir is a must and without it there could be no peace in the region," he added. The PPP chairman said that the serial incompetence and failed foreign policy of the "selected" Prime Minister Imran Khan would not be allowed to disturb the Kashmir cause as the people of Pakistan and their democratic and constitutional institutions stand united for the diplomatic, political and moral support to our Kashmiri brothers and sisters under every circumstance.

He said that the silence maintained by the international community over the Indian atrocities in held Kashmir have raised the concerns of human rights activists worldwide, and urged that the world should wake up from slumber and force India to lift the siege by allowing free exercise of their right to self-determination. Bilawal saluted the Kashmiri martyrs and expressed complete solidarity with them on behalf of the people of Pakistan and the PPP.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2020