ISLAMABAD, Nov 10 (APP):Former Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan Wednesday suggested to visiting high-level OIC delegation to combine its Kashmir dispute solution efforts with the United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC) to achieve peaceful 1948 UN-devised settlement roadmap.
In a news statement, Sardar Attique, who is Supreme Head of Muslim Conference—the first political party of Jammu and Kashmir, hailed the visit of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)’s delegation led by its Secretary General Ambassador Yousef Dobeay to Pakistan and AJK.
He appealed to the delegation to pay an urgent fact finding visit to the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
In the IIOJK, horrendous violation of human rights were being committed by over one million Indian armed forces chiefly after abrogation of Article 370 and 35-A and bifurcation of the Indian militarized Kashmir and its unlawful annexation to Indian union territory, he added.
Attique said besieged 113 million Kashmiris, women and children and the aged ones were looking towards the OIC and UNO to help implement the UN and India’s own Kashmir solution pledges.
“OIC’s Kashmir cause support is massively being acknowledged across the state of J&K and Kashmiri diaspora,” he noted.
Sardar Attique reminded that the presence of OIC Secretary General Ambassador Yousef Dobeay with his seven-member delegation in Muzafffarabad was manifestation of political and ideological solidarity of OIC with the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
“We all gratefully welcome this timely visit and urge a similar visit to India-held Kashmir to have a feel of ground realities of worst human rights there,” he said while pointing to plight of the Kashmiris in IIOJK.
“Over 10,000 kids are missing, either they have been killed or sold somewhere; Kashmiri women are tortured in Indian military barracks;
political leaders are stacked in jails in J&K and outside in Indian cities; extra judicial killings is a normal routine with Indian occupation forces,” he said and called upon the OIC to set up a cell in Muzaffarabad to monitor incessant situation on the other side of border.
He said the OIC diplomatic role should help open Indian held Kashmir to outside visitors, observers, HR organizations.
“Kashmir is not an internal issue of India; India herself had taken Kashmir as dispute to the UN Security Council and got it listed there on Jan 1, 1948; from international jurisprudence too India is bound by UN SC Kashmir resolutions for a fair UN-managed plebiscite in disputed J&K,” he maintained.
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