Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Sardar Masood Khan, President Azad Jammu and Kashmir, has said Muslims and Hindus have lived and will continue to live together in South Asia for centuries. “By killing, disenfranchising and dispossessing Kashmiri Muslims, the BJP-RSS regime is creating a poisonous legacy of hate and hostility. This will spell disaster for peace, security and development”, he said.
The President said that a global movement should be initiated to declare the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) as terrorist organisations as they are advocating an extremist ideology and providing military training to Hindu zealots. The President made these comments while addressing, as the chief guest, an online International Conference on “Role of Human Rights Watch in Thwarting Indian Atrocities in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir”, organized by the Center for Global and Strategic Studies. The conference was also addressed by Minister for Human Rights Ms. Shireen Mazari, Lord Nazir Ahmed, founding president of the Research Society of International Mr. Ahmer Bilal Soofi, and Executive Director Youth Forum AJK Ms. Maria Iqbal Tarana.
President Masood Khan in his opening remarks said that that despite the promulgation of numerous international Human Rights Instruments; India continues to flagrantly committed human rights abuses in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. He added that the scale of these violations have increased exponentially after the military lockdown imposed on August 5 last year.
Masood Khan said that the core right is the right to life and right to self-determination. He added that despite a passage of around a dozen UN Security Council resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir, the Kashmir dispute has yet to be resolved in an amicable manner.
