Murad urges int'l community to become voice of Kashmiris

Present curfew in Kashmir is the longest ever imposed anywhere in the world, says Murad

KARACHI:

Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on Friday urged the international community to become the voice of the oppressed people of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK)..

After leading a rally to express solidarity with the people of occupied Kashmir, organised by Commissioner Karachi from Peoples Chowrangi to Mazar-e-Quaid, the chief minister said Indian authorities are responsible for imposing the longest curfew, in the history of Kashmir, which is a naked violation of human rights and enough to inculcate the conscience of the international community and human rights bodies.

Murad added that in order to suppress the people of Kashmir, the Indian government has not only amended their constitution to deny historical rights to the people of the valley but has also turned the valley into a no-go-area, where no one can enter to witness the plight of the people.

"The present curfew in Kashmir is the longest ever imposed anywhere in the world."

He said that conferences, walks, and seminars to highlight the plight of the people of Kashmir were good efforts but we also have to make tangible efforts on diplomatic forums to force India to restore the status of Kashmir, to lift the curfew from the valley and allow plebiscite, as was decided by the United Nations.

“All the previous governments in Pakistan, with sagacious policies, have kept the Kashmir issue alive but the present government has failed to follow the course,” he said.

"Setting aside all political differences, we as a nation would have to unite on a single agenda to liberate the people of Kashmir from the clutches of the Indian government.”

He also said that atrocities unleashed in the valley of Kashmir were a threat to regional peace and that If the international community is interested in peace in the region it will have to take notice of the crimes Modi’s government has committed in Kashmir, and force him to restore the rights of suppressed Kashmiri’s by withdrawing police and armed forces from within the valley.

He also assured Kashmiri’s that the people of Pakistan were with them and will fight for their legitimate rights.