‘Muslims in IIOJK top target of anti-Islam frenzy’

Kashmiris have not succumbed to repression being perpetrated by Indian fanatic rulers, says AJK president

MUZAFFARABAD:

Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan has said that the Muslims particularly in India and Kashmir are the main target of the wave of Islamophobia currently sweeping across the world.

"Kashmiri Muslims have not succumbed to repression being perpetrated by the Indian fanatic rulers," he said while addressing a seminar held in Muzaffarabad on Wednesday to pay homage to prominent religious scholar Qari Masood Yousuf.

The seminar was also addressed by Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider, AJK Minister for Finance Dr Mohammad Najib Naqi and Maulana Sayeed Yousuf.

President Masood said that Islam is flourishing in every continent and the Azan (call for prayer) was echoing in every length and cranny across the world. "Therefore neither the Muslims can be eliminated nor can the call of Allah-o-Akbar be suppressed by any power on earth."

He said that the Muslim Ummah is protesting and condemning the blasphemy in France and called upon the Muslim world and the civilised countries to boycott French products. He also asserted that during his recent visit to the University of Health Sciences, students and teachers had pledged to boycott French products in all medical colleges affiliated with the UHS.

The AJK president said that "we would have to uphold the spirit of martyrs of Kashmir particularly those who liberated this part of Kashmir by shedding their blood".

He added: "The people in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmiri [IIOJK] have spurned all perks being offered by India and they demand just their freedom and the right to self-determination."

Masood lamented that the modesty of the respectable woman folk on the other side of the Line of Control was not safe today, and the Kashmiris are being turned into a minority in their own homeland as non-Kashmiri subjects from all over India are being settled in the occupied territory.

Paying homage to late Sheikhul Hadith Maulana Yousuf, the AJK president said that the Poonch region particularly Sadhnoti was the land of martyrs and ghazis who had sacrifices their lives to liberate Azad Kashmir.

On the occasion, Maulana Fazl said that the whole Muslim Ummah, particularly the Pakistani nation, stands by the Kashmiri people. "The federal government must avoid any action related to Gilgit-Baltistan which may hurt the Kashmir cause."

In his address, the ex-AJK prime minister Farooq Haider said that we cannot leave our brethren of Occupied Kashmir alone before the Indian aggression, and the liberation struggle will continue till the last Kashmiri subject is alive.

PM Minister Haider said freedom movement in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir will be continued till last Kashmiri is alive.

November 04; Pallandri: Addressing a seminar to pay homage to the prominent religious scholar, Qari Masood Yousuf. pic.twitter.com/jrxu1stzvq

— Masood Khan (@Masood__Khan) November 4, 2020