Mirpur
Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan on Monday said that we want peace in the region but peace could n’t be established on the dead bodies of Kashmiris.
“If India desires peace,it will have to resolve the Kashmir issue in accordance with the wishes of Kashmiris and international principles,” Masood emphasized.
In an interview with a private television network at Kashmir House in the federal metropolis, President Sardar Masood Khan said that bilateral talks with India had taken place many times in the past but they did not prove productive because the two countries had different goals,AJK President office said on Monday.
He said,”Pakistan wants a solution to the Kashmir issue through these talks while India is trying to gain time by sidelining the Kashmir issue in the talks and discussing irrelevant and trivial issues so that it can deceive the world.”
The President said that the people of Jammu and Kashmir were giving blood for Pakistan and the government and state of Pakistan would never leave them alone in their struggle for the right to self-determination.
Commenting on the international community’s support to the right to self-determination of the Kashmir people, he said that voices in support of Kashmiris were echoing in the UK, Europe, ASEAN countries, Gulf States and even in the US Congress.
But this support was coming from the members of the parliaments, civil society and the media.
With the exception of a few countries, the governments of all the influential countries did not speak out against India because of their strategic, political and economic interests while four of the five members of the UN Security Council, except China were trading with India.—KMS
