Staff Reporter
Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser has reaffirmed Pakistan’s commitment to continue supporting the just struggle of Kashmiris for their right to self-determination.
Talking to MNA and member Kashmir Committee Naureen Farooq on Saturday, the speaker said that Pakistan stands by the Kashmiri people and will continue to provide diplomatic and moral support to the Kashmiri people at the international level till a lasting solution to the Kashmir issue as per the aspirations of the Kashmiri people is realised.
The speaker and the member Kashmir Committee also discussed the formation of an All Parties Parliamentary Group to highlight the Kashmir dispute at the international level.
The speaker said that the brutality and barbarism that India has inflicted on occupied Kashmir is unprecedented. He said that silence of international human rights organisations on state sponsored commission of grave human rights violations in Occupied Kashmir was incomprehensible. He further said that India has tried to deprive the Kashmiri people of their basic rights by changing the demography of the illegally Occupied Kashmir. He said that the UN Security Council should take Immediate notice of deprivation of basic human rights.
The speaker further said that the present government has fully highlighted the issue of Kashmir at the parliamentary and diplomatic level. He said that Parliamentary Kashmir Committee, Standing Committees on Foreign Affairs and Human Rights have been asked to further highlight the issue of human right abuses in the occupied valley.
