MIRPUR (AJK): Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan while greeting the US President-elect Joe Biden over his electoral victory has expressed the hope that the United States being an important member of the UN Security Council will play an active role under his able leadership to get the massacre of Kashmiri people stopped.

Sardar Masood Khan hoped that while upholding his previous stand, the US president-elect besides raising his voice against the discriminatory laws against the Muslims and other minorities of India, President office told media Sunday night.

He maintained that Pakistan and the Kashmiri people would welcome mediation by the United States or any other country for the settlement of Kashmir issue provided this mediation is supervised by the United Nations, and the Kashmiri people are its part.

The AJK president recounted that in the 1950s, the United States while supporting the right of self-determination of the Kashmiri people, had played an important role in the approval of the UN Security Council resolution on Kashmir, and we expect the same US role today.-APP