All Parties Kashmir Conference decides to start vigorous campaign against India


ISLAMABAD, Jan 30 (SABAH): All Parties Conference of Azad Kashmir has demanded of the European Union to designate a special representative on Kashmir to check the humanitarian violations in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) by Indian forces.

The APC has demanded resolution of the Kashmir dispute according to the United Nation’s Charter and resolutions of UN Security Council. It has also been decided to start vigorous campaign against India. Public gatherings will be held in Islamabad, conferences will be held in London and Brussels and historic protests will be held in New York. It has been decided to run the vigorous diplomatic campaign at the international level to tell the world about the situation of occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

All Parties Kashmir Conference was held at Jammu and Kashmir House in Islamabad under the chairmanship of President Azad Jammu and Kashmir Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry. Meanwhile PM AJK Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan Niazi, former president and PM AJK Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob Khan, former prime minister AJK Raja Muhammad Farooq Haider Khan, former prime minister AJK Sardar Atique Ahmed Khan, Most Senior Minister and President PTI AJK Sardar Tanveer Illyas KhaN, President Pakistan People’s Party AJK Chaudhry Muhammad Yasin, Opposition Leader in AJK Legislative Assembly Chaudhry Latif Akbar, Chief Organizer PML-N AJK Shah Ghulam Qadir, President Jammu Kashmir Peoples Party Sardar Hassan Ibrahim Khan, President Muslim Conference Miza Shafiq Jarral, Emir Jamaat-e-Islami Azad Kashmir Dr. Khalid Mahmood Khan, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam leader Maulana Imtiaz Siddiqui, former Emir JI Azad Kashmir Abdul Rashid Turabi shed light on occupied Kashmir situation and presented different suggestions.

Addressing a joint news conference in Islamabad on Sunday, President Azad Jammu and Kashmir Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry said India since its unilateral and illegal actions of 5 August 2019, has been trying to disturb identity, integrity, and demography of IIOJK.

He said India has given fake domiciles of IIOJK to 4.2 million Indian Hindus while around 4,000 Indian citizens have applied for procurement of land in the occupied valley to take control of the Kashmir’s economy.

The AJK President said around one million India troops have virtually transformed the entire held valley into an open prison, where Indian security forces are committing worst state terrorism and human rights violations.

He said media is under extreme sanctions and Srinagar Press Club has been closed to suppress the voices of the people of Kashmir. He said, keeping all these things in view, the AJK government has decided to raise voice for freedom from Azad Kashmir, which is the base camp of Kashmir’s liberation.

Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry said the joint leadership of Azad Kashmir will organize rallies in Islamabad, Muzaffarabad and other big cities of Pakistan.

He said the first rally will be organized in Islamabad in the second week of March this year, while the second one will be held in Muzaffarabad and this process will be further expanded to other parts of Pakistan.

He said the joint leadership will also organize a demonstration in London to mobilize the international community against Indian atrocities in held valley and to resolve the Kashmir issue in line with the UN Security Council’s resolutions.

The AJK President also demanded of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to convene a special meeting of OIC Foreign Ministers on Kashmir just like its earlier session on Afghanistan.

He said the joint leadership of Azad Kashmir will also visit New York on the occasion of UN General Assembly session being held in September this year to urge the international community to play its effective role in resolution of this longstanding dispute.

Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry said Kashmiri leadership from across the Line of Control and diaspora will be invited in the next All Parties Conference.