Staff Reporter
Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser has said that Kashmir issue was not just a territorial dispute but a question of people’s inherent right to self-determination. He added that lockdown and propaganda cannot gag the voice of freedom nor it can alter Pakistan’s resolute and principled stance on the issue of Kashmir.
He said this in his message at the eve of Kashmir Solidarity Day to be observed across the world and Azad Jammu and Kashmir on February 5 to express solidarity with the Kashmiri brethren.
Asad Qaiser has said that repression and tyranny of Indian Government towards innocent Kashmiris had put the peace of the world and the region at stake. He said that revocation of article 370 and 35A of the Indian Constitution deprived the people of Kashmir of their identity and liberties which had been universally contracted.
He said that the said revocation was utterly a disgusting legal attempt to deface subjects of a state of their identify. Lamenting last 184-days lockdown in held valley the Speaker Said that Kashmari have stranded in their homes by the Indian Armed Forces with no excess to Food, Medicines, Education, Internet and other necessities of life.
The Speaker said that whole Pakistani nation is united on Kashmir issue and each and every Pakistani Child stood with their Kashmiris brethren. He pledged to pursue the case of Kashmiris at all international and regional forums. He said that to express solidarity with Kashmiri brethren special debate has been held in National Assembly followed by passage unanimous resolution. He said that Pakistan’s parliament had always stood with the people of Kashmir and forcefully highlighted the Kashmir issue at all the parliamentary forums. He called upon the Pakistani nation and media to actively participate in Kashmir solidarity day to express solidarity with their Kashmiri brethren.
