ISLAMABAD, May 2 (APP): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday reiterated that Pakistan stood by the people of Kashmir in their just struggle for freedom as India could never suppress their voice through oppression.
The prime minister, in a meeting with Azad Jammu & Kashmir Prime Minister Anwarul Haq and his delegation, said Pakistan would continue its moral, political and diplomatic support to the Kashmiri people to make them get their right to self-determination.
He congratulated the AJK PM on assuming the office through a constitutional and democratic process and assured his government’s support for AJK’s development and resolution of the issues related to the development funds.
The prime minister urged the United Nations and the international community to take notice of the illegal unilateral Indian actions of August 5, 2019, calling it an attack on human rights.
He said Pakistan always exposed the Indian atrocities in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir at every international forum.
The prime minister instructed the authorities concerned for immediate resolution of the issues related to the development funds of Azad Jammu & Kashmir.
The delegation comprised AJK ministers including Col (retd) Waqar Noor and Faisal Mumtaz Rathore, and Member of Legislative Assembly Chaudhry Latif Akbar.
President of Pakistan Muslim League-N AJK chapter Shah Ghulam Qadir, former AJK prime minister Raja Farooq Haider and President of Pakistan Peoples Party AJK chapter Chaudhry Yaseen also attended the meeting.
Federal ministers Ishaq Dar and Ahsan Iqbal, and Advisor to the PM on Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan Qamar Zaman Kaira were also present.
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