Lawmakers, activists, professionals and students, emphasizing the need for mass awareness regarding the right to self-determination, reminded the British government of its responsibility on Kashmir.
During a roundtable conference hosted by Tehreek-e-Kashmir UK President, FahimKayani, in the British parliament to commemorate 76 years of illegal occupation of Kashmir by India, the participants discussed the highly militarized situation in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
Chaired by Shadow Minister Jess Phillips, the roundtable conference in “unequivocal terms extended its support to the just cause of Kashmiris which is right to self-determination” as enshrined in various resolutions passed by the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council. Among the participants were Debbie Abraham, MP and Chairperson of All Parties Kashmir Parliamentary Group for Kashmir, Andrew Gwynne, MP and Chairman of Labour Friends of Kashmir, Kim Leadbeater, MP, YasminQureshi MP, Paul Blomfield, MP, Muhammad Yasin, MP, Rachel Hopkins, MP, Lord Wajid Khan and Simon Lightwood, MP.
MuzzammilAyyub Thakur and Shaista Safi presented testimonies of war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated by India in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The duo are natives of IIOJK, living in exile.
India sent its forces to occupy Jammu and Kashmir on October 27, 1947, which triggered a mass mobilization against New Delhi’s illegal military rule.—INP
