Attack on AJK will turn India into a graveyard of its own troops: President Masood

Right to self-determination our destination, says AJK president

MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan has advised India's Hindu fanatic leaders to give up the idea of launching an attack on the liberated territory, saying in case of the assault, “the whole of India would be turned into a graveyard of its own army”.

Addressing a function on the occasion of 72nd Founding Day of AJK on Thursday, he said that the region, liberated under the leadership of Ghazi-e-Millat Sardar Mohammad Ibrahim Khan and Raeesul Ahrar Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas, has been facing numerous dangers today.

He said that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) fanatics were threatening to attack AJK, and to retake it without realising that Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) were liberated by the valiant people of these regions from Dogra Army by waging a war.

"These regions were never part of India nor will become part of it in future," he added.

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Referring to the latest situation in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK), President Masood said that 81 days have passed since the Indian military siege in the disputed territory. On August 5, New Delhi had stripped Occupied Kashmir of the special autonomy it had for seven decades through a rushed presidential order.

He lamented that Indian troops are busy in heinous crimes including humiliation of women terming them a spoil of war.

Thousands of Kashmiri youth have been kidnapped and being subjected to torture in concentration camps. Global media as well as parliaments and civil society of various countries are constantly expressing their concerns over war crimes being committed by Indian troops but the Modi government remains unmoved, he added.

The AJK president said that struggle on political and diplomatic fronts is essential to break the mysterious silence of powerful nations including the UN Security Council, to liberate the Himalayan valley from the Indian clutches.

"This war is to fight by not only Pakistan Army alone but 220 million people of Pakistan and Azad Kashmir," he said adding that India is attempting to pit the people of Azad Jammu and Kashmir against each other, and “we need to promote unity and cohesion in our ranks”.

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Earlier, President Masood also inspected parade by a smart contingent of AJK police led by Parade Commander DSP Chaudhry Aftab. He also decorated police personnel showing outstanding performance and the families of martyred police personnel with presidential police award.

Meanwhile, addressing a seminar on "Right to self-determination our destination", organised by Azad Jammu and Kashmir University in Muzaffarabad, the AJK president said while threatening to use nuclear weapons against Pakistan, “perhaps the Indian rulers forget that Pakistan also possesses the same nuclear arsenal”.

Our policy of patience and restraint must not misconstrue as our weakness, he added. "Pakistan is a peaceful and responsible country and its desire of peace must not be misinterpreted."

President Masood said that India had already attacked Pakistan and AJK through its adventurism along the Line of Control, and “we are in a state of war”.

He urged students to use modern communication means to take the voice of the people of Occupied Kashmir to the international community.

The seminar was also addressed by Chairman National Assembly's Kashmir Committee Syed Fakhr Imam, Vice Chancellor Azad Kashmir University Prof. Dr Kalim Abbasi, Farhan Mujahid Chak and Secretary Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Cell Mansoor Qadir Dar and other speakers.