Sardar Masood Khan“Kashmir must not be regarded a forgotten issue, but the issue has touched alarming proportions due to the reign of worst terror India has unleashed against the defenseless Kashmir people for the last seven decades,” said members of visiting delegation of European parliament while addressing a joint press conference with Azad Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan here.
Leader of Labor Party in the EU Parliament Richard Corbett asserted that the European Union and the European Parliament would continue to use its influence and play its role for a peaceful solution of Kashmir issue.
“The Friends of Kashmir Group will further project Kashmir issue in the EU parliament, and will also take it up before the European nations,” he said, adding that solution of Kashmir was the responsibility of not a single country but the whole international community. Member EU Parliament Ms Irina Von Weise said that the visit would prove helpful in acquainting with the plight of migrants from occupied Kashmir. “As vice chair committee on human rights, I would continue to highlight this issue in the European parliament,” she added.
Substitute member Subcommittee on Human Rights in the European Parliament, Shaffaq Mohammed asserted that we had no enmity toward the Indian people, but we are concerned over human rights situation in occupied Kashmir.
“The EU states while establishing trade and economic relations with India, must keep in view the human rights situation of Kashmir,” he said adding that the model under which UK and Ireland had successful resolved their disputes through negotiations, can be applied to Jammu and Kashmir issue in South Asia also.
Councilor Nazia Rehman stressed that systematic human rights violations by Indian forces in occupied Kashmir must cease, and the people of Jammu and Kashmir should be granted their fundamental right of self-determination.
