ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday urged authorities around the world to make India desist from its aggressive policies against Kashmir’s freedom movement.
Addressing an International Parliamentary Seminar on Kashmir, organised by the Young Parliamentarians Forum of the National Assembly, he discussed the prevailing situation in Indian-occupied Kashmir.
He said, “Seventy years of brutal repression and Kashmiri struggle in the face of that oppression have shown cries of freedom cannot be stifled by sounds of bullets.”
He asked the international community to tell India that “enough is enough”, that the “continued suffering” of generations of the people needed to stop.
He called freedom fighter Bruhan Wani, whose recent killing had sparked fresh riots in IK, a “vibrant and charismatic leader” adding that his “martyrdom has become a rallying point for the freedom loving people of the territory”. Talking about his killing by Indian forces he said that the oppressors’ efforts “to silence that one voice have unleashed a thousand more”.
The prime minister also lamented at India’s backtracking, recalling the agreement on Kashmir made between both countries to recognise the Kashmiri people’s right to self determination.
He called Kashmir Pakistan’s “jugular vein” saying that Pakistan would continue to provide moral, diplomatic and political support to Kashmiris on all international forums.
