Staff Reporter
Mirpur (AJK)
Azad Jammu Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan on Monday said that Kashmiri brothers and sisters were facing Indian repression these days which never seen before.
They, he said, were imprisoned in their homes and were being made to live without any basic amenities. He said “We, as an Ummah, must be unified in our stance and position when it comes to both the Kashmir and Palestine issue.”
The president made these remarks while interacting with a delegation of Islamic scholars, led by Tahir Ashrafi, Chairman Pakistan Ulema Council in the federal capital, said a statement released to media by AJK Presidential secretariat.
The AJK president, it continued, appreciated the positive role played by the Chairman Pakistan Ulema Council in helping to highlight the various issues faced by the Muslim Ummah. He also appreciated the Council for organising seminal conferences and rallies on pertinent issues including Kashmir and Palestine.
The president said that as followers of Islam, the Muslims must be proud and never be apologetic of the identity. He said Islam was a religion of peace and it was pertinent that as Muslims, they spread the true message of religion and fight Islamophobia and other issues facing the ummah.
Speaking on the current situation in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJK) , the president said that the people of IOJK were going through the darkest hour in their history as they were being tortured and the youth were being rounded up and sent to so-called, “de-radicalisation camps”.
Kashmiri women were the most traumatized segment on the world, as they were facing rape, molestation and harassment on a daily basis in the occupied valley. “The exact number of rape and molestation cases cannot be ascertained. Their bodies are being objectified by the Indian occupation forces and they are treated as spoils of war”, he said.
