Sirajul Haq demands the govt to give a roadmap for freedom of occupied Kashmir from Indian yoke

PESHAWAR, Feb 05 (SABAH): Jamaat-e-Islami Paksitan Emir Sirajul Haq has demanded the government to give a roadmap for the freedom of Occupied Kashmir from Indian yoke and also called for holding an OIC meeting in Islamabad on agenda of Kashmir.

Addressing Kashmir freedom march on Kashmir Solidarity Day on Saturday in Peshawar, Sirajul Haq criticized the silence of the UNO and western powers on human rights abuses in the occupied area.

“People of Kashmir are demanding their right to self-determination from the UNO. The international organization must fulfill its obligations to prove its credibility,” he said as thousands of participants raised slogans condemning Indian genocide and expressing solidarity to their Kashmir brothers and sisters in their struggle against occupied forces.

Sirajul Haq said the Prime Minister Imran Khan should be present in the country on Kashmir Solidarity Day. He said the present government like the previous regimes failed to fight for the cause. He said the Pakistani nation and the JI were standing side by side with the Kashmir people in their freedom struggle. He said the Pakistan government though makes full surrender on Kashmir cause but the people of Kashmir were determined to get freedom from New Delhi.

There was rampant rise in human right abuses by the Indian occupied forces in the held area since August, 2019, the day the Modi government revoked the special constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir and split the province into two separate federally governed territories, he said, adding Islamabad should have formed the national plan by taking on board the national leadership soon after the Modi government action but it failed to do so. The nation, Sirajul Haq said, was seeking answer from the rulers for deceiving the people of Kashmir.

He regretted the human rights abuses range from mass killings, forced disappearances, torture, rape and sexual abuse to suppression of freedom of speech and bans on religious gatherings continued in the occupied valley for over two and half years. Occupied Kashmir, he said, remained under a lockdown for months. Thousands of Kashmiris were detained without charge, including former chief ministers, political leaders, opposition activists, lawyers, and journalists, he said, questing the silence of the UNO and western powers on rights abuses in the held area.

Quoting reports of independent media, Sirajul Haq said the fascist government of the BJI shifted over 29,000 Kashmiris from Kashmir to different Indian jails in past 29 months. The funeral prayer of iconic Kashmiri leader Syed Ali Shah Gilani was not allowed to be offered in open place and his dead body was buried in midnight under the shadows of guns of Indian army, he said, adding the people of Kashmir however refused to make surrender before the atrocities and were standing unshattered. He said the Pakistani rulers must realize that the Modi government was bent upon changing the demography of held area. For the purpose, he said, it settled Hindus population from different parts of India to Kashmir with an objective to change Muslim majority of the region into minority. If the rulers of Pakistan failed to check the design of New Delhi, he said, Pakistan will lose its jugular vein forever. He vowed to continue struggle for Kashmir cause.

Rallies and marches were taken out in all major and small cities on Kashmir Solidarity Day. JI Secretary General Ameerul Azim and Supreme Court Bar Association President Chaudhry Muhammad Ahsan Bhoon addressed the participants in Lahore while JI Vice-Emir Liaqat Bloch led the rally in Peshawar. JI Karachi Emir Engineer Hafiz Naeemur Rahman, JI Senator Mushtaq Ahmed Khan led the rallies in Karachi and Islamabad respectively.