Lahore
The Azad Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan has said that India is poised to ruin the world order which had come into being on the basis of the principle of rule of law following the World War-II, and the United Nations is also its part thereof.
‘The United Nation is striving for environmental protection and sustainable development, but is not fulfilling its basic responsibilities of preventing the war disaster, ethnic cleansing and the human rights violations,’ he said while addressing the concluding session of a conference on ‘Kashmir issue: Options for Pakistan Within Ambit of International Law & Global politics’ here on Monday.
Organized by departments of political science and international relations of the Lahore University of Management and Technology, the conference was also addressed by former Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasur, former Azad Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan; President LUMT Ibrahim Hassan Murad, Lt. Gen. (ret) Javed Hassan, leader of All Parties Hurriyet Conference SyedAbdullah Gilani and an expert on international law Ahmar Bilal Soofi and others.
The AJK president said that liberation of occupied Kashmir is the responsibility of not only Kashmiri people but also Pakistan because Kashmir is a matter of the survival of Pakistan also, and Pakistan is incomplete without Kashmir. ‘The ongoing liberation struggle in occupied Kashmir is the war of completion of Pakistan, and under the international law, Pakistan can move International Law Commission against India’s unlawful, unconstitutional and immoral actions, and can demand setting up of a tribunal, but it will be a political decision,’ he said and added that we will have to first see whether it will be in our interest to withdraw the Kashmir issue out from the Security Council and take it to the international court of justice or international law commission.
The AJK president said that although the global politics is not in favor of Pakistan and the Kashmiri people, but there is good news that the international civil society has decided to support Pakistan and the Kashmiri people. ‘After August 5 last year, a big development has taken place in the world that earlier we went to the European Parliament and call on the MPs during informal meetings but they referred to their trade relations with India and were not ready to hear anything about Kashmir, but this situation has changed altogether after August 5actions, and they have adopted the narrative of Pakistan and the Kashmiri people on the Kashmir issue,’ he underlined.
Sardar Masood Khan said that the European Parliament, UK parliament, and the French Parliament, for the first time in the history, held their sessions on Kashmir while the US Congress also held three sessions on Kashmir. ‘In the changed global scenario, we should draw up our narrative afresh, and use all available options including military options,’ he said.
The AJK president said that after changing the special status of Kashmir, India was looking for a political group which supports its narrative inside Kashmir, but it would never succeed in its attempt.
He stressed that the environment of unity and cohesion should be maintained in Pakistan and Azad Kashmir, and a unanimous stand on the Kashmir issue should be adopted to leave the 72 years liberation struggle of the Kashmiri people to its ultimate end.—DNA
