‘Right of self-determination cannot be suppressed’

CM says Modi govt will have to be held accountable for Indian atrocities

Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar said that India has blatantly violated human rights by revoking the special status of the occupied state of Jammu and Kashmir.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, he said that the Kashmiri’s right of self-determination cannot be suppressed. He maintained that this controversial step is, in fact, ‘madness’ which will escalate tensions.

“India has always deviated from giving the right of self-determination to the Kashmiri people. The Modi government will have to be held accountable for the infinite cruelties committed against the Kashmiri people,” he said.

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He stated that the Modi government has turned the serene Kashmir valley into a living hell through gruesome acts. “The Indian army has gone to every extent to refrain the Kashmiris from claiming their fundamental right of freedom,” he said. He added that India has wreaked havoc in the lives of the Kashmiris through state-sponsored terrorism. However, every tactic has failed to suppress the voice of the Kashmiri people.

“The whole world knows that India has illegally occupied the Kashmir valley through military aggression,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 7^th, 2019.