Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-HaqKakar has said that state terrorism of India in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir was not hidden from anyone and Pakistan keeps a close watch on it.
Addressing the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly on Kashmir Solidarity Day, the prime minister said that for last many years, India was presenting fake narrative and trying to weaken the struggle of local Kashmiris by wrongly labeling them as terrorists.
Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar said there was a clear difference of terrorism and the people’s struggle for independence.
He said the Indian leadership was also claiming Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir. “On this day, I want to make it clear that we believe in peace in the region and we are showing maximum patience and tolerance and peace,” he said.
The prime minister said Pakistan did not want any conflict in the region, however one should realize that the country was fully capable of strongly retaliating any attack from the neighborly country.
In this regard, he said India had for many times checked our capacity. “If it (India) has any desire to check Pakistan’s capacity again, then we are ready to show our strength.”
Premier Kakar said if India was a true democracy, it should give the people of Kashmir their just demand of right to self determination while it should also fully restore the basic human rights in IIOJK.
He said India must also stop the gross violations of human rights in the region besides releasing all the political prisoners. He said it should also abrogate all the strict emergency laws while it should also recall its heavy military presence from the villages and towns of Kashmir.
It should allow the people to hold peaceful gatherings in Kashmir and it should also allow the people of Kashmir to exercise their right to self-determination.
The prime minister said that India must allow unrestricted access to the UN and OIC observers, international media and human rights organizations to IIOJK to obtain first-hand information about the situation there; and investigate and report human rights violations.
