Jammu and Kashmir’s partition not acceptable to Kashmiris: Sultan Mahmood

ISLAMABAD, Sep 2 (SABAH): The President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir
(AJK), Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry, while stressing the need for
settling the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the UN Security Council
resolutions, has said the fragmentation of the erstwhile state of Jammu and
Kashmir was not acceptable to the Kashmiri people.

Addressing a function in Islamabad, the AJK President said, “Let it be clear
that Kashmiris will not allow the partition of Kashmir under any
circumstances.” He said all that Kashmiris want is implementation of the UN
resolutions that guaranteed the right to self-determination to the people of
Jammu and Kashmir.

He reaffirmed full support to the ongoing freedom struggle in Indian Illegally
Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and said that the government and people on
this side of the Line of Control (LoC) stand in support and solidarity with
their Kashmiri brethren in their struggle against the Indian illegal
occupation. He said that all political parties were on the same page on the
issue of Kashmir.

Barrister Chaudhry said that the BJP-led Indian government was hell bent on
changing the demography of IIOJK by settling Hindus in the territory. He
said, by altering the region’s demography, the Modi government wants to
install a Hindu chief minister in the region in order to lend legitimacy to the
actions it took on and after August 5, 2019.

The AJK President deplored that India’s 900,000 forces’ personnel deployed
in length and breadth of occupied Kashmir were involved in gross human
rights violations in the region. He lauded the sacrifices rendered by the

Kashmiri people and maintained that the day is not far when the people of
IIOJK would achieve their cherished goal of liberation of Kashmir from the
Indian illegal occupation. He said the Kashmiris living abroad should also
play their role in highlighting the freedom movement.

The event was organized in the memory of towering Kashmiri Hurriyat
leader Syed Ali Gilani. Paying rich tributes to Syed Ali Gilani, he said the
veteran leader was fearless advocate of Kashmiris’ right to self-
determination who devoted his entire life to the freedom movement of
Kashmir.