Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan has urged the international community to intervene to stop inhuman actions of the Narendra Modi-led government in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
He also called upon the UN Security Council play its role in finding a political and diplomatic solution to the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the UN resolutions on the issue to save the Himalayan region from devastation and ensure peace and security of the region.
President Masood was addressing two international webinars and two national conferences on Tuesday on the occasion of the 73rd Kashmir Black Day against the occupation of the valley by Indian forces since October 27, 1947.
October 27; Islamabad: Addressing the participants of a webinar on #HumanRightsViolations and demographic re-engineering by India in occupied Jammu and Kashmir" to mark Kashmir Black Day, organized and hosted by #Kashmir Info Brussels ASBL. pic.twitter.com/wkLYUm3AiB
— Masood Khan (@Masood__Khan) October 27, 2020
“Kashmir issue emerged as a result of illegal and the immoral military occupation of Kashmir by India in 1947 and today it has all the potential of taking India-Pakistan hostility to the nuclear level,” he added.
Addressing webinars organised by the Scottish Human Rights Forum and Kashmir Council Sweden, the AJK president rejected Indian claim that Kashmir is a bilateral dispute between the two countries, saying it is an international dispute on which the UN Security Council had passed several resolutions and the issue is still on the agenda of the Security Council.
Masood asserted that apart from Pakistan and India, the people of Azad Jammu and Kashmir are the principal party to the long-standing dispute and the participation of Kashmiri people in any parleys to resolve the issue is inevitable to make the process a success.
He emphasised that solution to the Kashmir issue lies in a free and fair plebiscite under the UN supervision and in accordance with UN Security Council resolutions. He maintained that before any talks on Kashmir it is necessary for India to withdraw all measures it took before and after August 5, 2019, with regard to Occupied Kashmir in violation of UN Security Council Resolutions 92 and 122.
India, he said, also needs to take back actions such as unilaterally changing the disputed status of the region and altering the demography of the occupied territory.
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The black day observed across the globe on October 27 every year. Terming the October 27 as the darkest day of the history.#APPNews #KashmirWantsFreedom #Kashmirilivesmatter @MoIB_Official @Masood__Khan pic.twitter.com/Dtvr2eaYOv
He said that the UN Security Council should play the role of mediator to resolve the dispute and the UN Secretary-General should appoint a Special Representative to take forward the diplomatic process.
Addressing a conference organised by the Kashmir Institute of International Relations (KIIR), President Masood said that the bond of love and the brotherhood between Kashmiris and Pakistan is eternal and no power on earth could separate them from each other.
India has used every tactic in the last seven decades to integrate the Kashmiris with Indian society and win their hearts and minds but it has failed and now it has hatched a nefarious conspiracy to wipe out the entire Kashmiri nation, he added.
Dialogue with India, he want on to say, could not be successful without the participation of genuine representatives of Kashmiris.
He said that after August 5 last year, the entire Kashmir valley is under siege where the Indian army is selectively killing the youth every day, arresting them and putting them in jails.
"In the last one year, 14,000 youths have been arrested and locked up in various jails in Kashmir and India."
The president said that even children of Kashmir and women are also not safe from Indian barbarism, and hence, it is obligatory for the international community to take congnisance of gross violations of human rights by accelerating efforts to resolve the dispute through peaceful means.
Video message of the President AJK, Sardar Masood Khan on October 27 Black Day [English]. 1/2#blackdayforkashmir #JammuAndKashmir #blackday2020#Kashmir pic.twitter.com/6mwRXBGjiv
— Masood Khan (@Masood__Khan) October 27, 2020
Video message of the President AJK, Sardar Masood Khan on October 27 Black Day [English]. 2/2#blackdayforkashmir #JammuAndKashmir #blackday2020#Kashmir pic.twitter.com/ZST5Dn8Gk7
— Masood Khan (@Masood__Khan) October 27, 2020
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