Declaring August 5 as the darkest day in the history of Kashmir, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan has said that this day may also prove to be beginning of the fall of India and its expansionism.
"The organised campaign launched by 56 groups of Kashmiri expatriates in five continents of the world against New Delhi's action of August 5 in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IIOJK) will certainly frustrate India's heinous and sordid designs," he added.
The AJK president was addressing two separate international webinars through video link from Muzaffarabad on the occasion of Yaum-e-Istehsal (Kashmir Siege Day). These webinars were organised by Ghulam Nabi Fai, the Secretary General US-based World Kashmir Awareness Forum and Javed Rathore, the Chairman of Kashmir Solidarity Forum.
President Masood stressed the Kashmiri expatriates and their Kashmir lobbying groups to mount pressure on India to end the lockdown of Occupied Kashmir, lift uncalled for restrictions on media and release all political detainees along with the juvenile Kashmiri prisoners languishing in the Indian prisons since August 5 last year.
"The responsibilities of Kashmiri expatriates have increased manifold in the changed situation, and now they will have to take the Kashmir cause as their first and foremost priority by actively working with the members of the parliaments, civil society activists and media in the countries they are residing in to solicit support for the internationally-recognised right to self-determination of the Kashmiri people," he added.
President Masood also said that there is a need to raise voice against Indian settler-colonial project in Kashmir because, under the garb of this plan, India has constantly been engaged in changing demography of the disputed territory in order to turn it into its settlement.
He pointed out that India had granted domicile of Kashmir to more than 400,000 Indian citizens during the last four months, and “if this disgusting exercise continued, the demography of the whole state of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir will change in the next three to four years”.
He further said that fascist Indian occupational army had started the development of illegal settlements by amending Jammu and Kashmir Development Act in the occupied territory to grab the land of Kashmiris and facilitating the RSS and Shiv Sena goons to settle in the disputed Himalayan territory.
Referring to the recent report of Genocide Watch, the AJK president went on to say that Kashmir has entered into the final stage of the 10 stages of genocide and the final stage is the complete annihilation of Kashmiris.
Drawing an analogy between new settler laws introduced by the BJP-RSS regime in IIOJK and Nazi Germany, he said that Jews were legally eliminated by declaring non-citizen before they were physically eliminated in 1935 under Nuremberg Laws before the start of World War II.
The AJK president warned that India lacks the capability to come up to the expectations of the United States and some West European countries which desire to use it as a pawn against China.
Enumerating the success of Kashmiris and Pakistan in the wake of August 5, 2019 Indian actions in IIOJK, he said with the help of China, Pakistan has been able to raise the Kashmir issue in the UN Security Council for the first time in the last 50 years besides making important parliaments of the world including UK, European and French parliament to speak for the oppressed people of Kashmir.
He said world media also exposed the false narrative of India by publishing numerous reports about what is happening in Kashmir. President Masood appreciated the contribution made by the Pakistani and the Kashmiri expatriates in highlighting the Kashmir issue on the international level.
Expressing his appreciation to Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, Javed Rathore and other diaspora community leaders for their continuous efforts in raising the issue of Kashmir in the US, Europe and other parts of the world, the AJK president said despite many challenges members of the Kashmiri community have been very steadfast in their struggle for achieving the freedom and liberty of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Praising Malaysian leader and Chairman of Malaysian Consultative Council for Islamic Movement (MAPIM) Mohammad Azmi Abdul Hamid, President Masood termed him a trendsetter and an instrumental to get Friends of Kashmir Groups in 10 Asian countries of the Asian region.
This was Azmi Abdul Hamid who has brought Muzaffarabad and Kuala Lumpur closer and also facilitated to hold high-level meetings during his visit to Malaysia, he added.
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