AJK PM Haider seeks UK’s help to resolve Kashmir issue

Says a school van carrying female students was brazenly targeted recently by Indians at Line of Control

MIRPUR: Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan has called upon the democratic institutions and human rights bodies of United Kingdom to play their proactive role in ending the violations of human rights in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

He made these remarks on Friday while speaking as the chief guest at a symposium on Kashmir at the House of Commons in London, says a message received here Friday night.

"Being one of the basic parties to the Kashmir issue back to the division of the subcontinent in 1947, Britain is morally bound to play its due role to get the global Kashmir issue resolved through its due and effective intervention," he remarked.

Under the spirit of the Partition plan, Jammu and Kashmir being Muslim majority states should have been part of Pakistan but unfortunately, India trampled the rules of the game and occupied the Muslim majority state with military might.

Haider alleged that genocide of Kashmiris was aimed to change the demography of the state by turning the Muslim majority in Kashmir into a minority. He urged the members of the British parliament to support legitimate struggle of Kashmiri people for their democratic right of self-determination.

The prime minister also asked the parliamentarian to initiate a debate on Kashmir in the parliament as a peaceful settlement of Kashmir issue, which is a key to lasting peace in South Asia.

He said that the Kashmiris striving for their right to decide their future, which was guaranteed to them by the global community under UN Security Council's resolutions. Referring to persistent firing from across the Line of Control, Haider said that Indian army is not only violating the ceasefire agreement by also brazenly breaching international laws by targeting hospitals, ambulances and school going children. He added that a school van carrying female students was brazenly targeted recently by Indians at Line of Control.