Launching of book on occupied Kashmir
President Dr Arif Alvi Wednesday said India was on path to self-destruction with its Hindutva policy targeting all minorities as it was vainly planning to suppress the Kashmiris’ struggle for their right to self-determination with barbaric steps.
He said the unending oppression cou-pled with atrocities and human rights viola-tions committed against the innocent Kashmiris in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and other minorities in India, were resulting into a fire that would eventually engulf India and dawn into freedom of the Kashmiri people.
The president was speaking at the book launching ceremony of Dr Muham-mad Qasim Faktoo, a political Kashmiri prisoner who had been languishing in an Indian jail for the last 29 years.
Dr Faktoo’s book ‘Baang’ provides an insight into his sufferings and life-long struggle against the Indian illegal occupa-tion of the IIOJK.
The event was organized by the Kashmir Youth Alliance (KYA) in collaboration with the Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir in connection with the observance of Kashmiris’ Right to Self-Determination Day.
President Alvi said Quaid-e-Azam Mu-hammad Ali Jinnah had regarded Kashmir as the jugular vein of Pakistan, which meant that the Pakistani nation and Kashmiris were tied together in permanent bonds of affections and brotherhood.
The Quaid had realized the Hindu machinations long ago and therefore, he parted ways during 1928, he added.
The president observed that injustice was done during the Indo-Pak partition principles whereas promises made with the Kashmiri people by the world commu-nity had not been fulfilled.
He said India through its unilateral and illegal steps tried to bring demographic changes in the IIOJK, but those were de-nounced by the world bodies and the Or-ganization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and global rights bodies.
The president opined that the Hindutva policy pursued by the recent Indian rulers had been a reincarnation of the Hindu’s supremacist ideology centuries ago.
He referred to a book of Khushwant Singh, an Indian writer, who had predicted doom for India due to its self-destruction course.
