NUST seminar stresses Kashmir’s right to self-determination

Illegal attempt at annexation violates UN resolutions, speaker says

National University of Science and Technology (NUST) Institute of Policy Studies (NIPS) organised a seminar on ‘Indian-Occupied Kashmir’s Destiny: Freedom from Indian Oppression,’ at the university’s main campus. The seminar aimed at bringing forth some of the key aspects of the Kashmir issue and the trajectory that it may witness in the future.

In his opening remarks, NUST Pro-Rector Maj Gen Jahangir Khan (retd) emphasised that this year’s commemoration of Kashmiris’ inalienable right to self-determination highlighted the terrible fact that India’s oppression of Kashmiris had increased manifold. It had worsened after the inhuman lockdown and siege of millions of Kashmiris that followed India’s dastardly revocation of Article 370 of its own constitution.

He said this fundamentally illegal attempt at annexation violated not only the United Nations (UN) resolutions but also served to highlight the fact that the Indian-Occupied Jammu and Kashmir was a disputed region calling for urgent and just resolution.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 8^th, 2020.