Kashmiris not alone in their freedom struggle: FM Qureshi

Dunya News

FM Qureshi reaffirmed Pakistans support to Kashmiris for their right to self-determination.

LONDON (Dunya News) – Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Monday reaffirmed Pakistan’s commitment to support Kashmiris in their struggle for the right of self-determination.

He was addressing an international conference on Kashmir in the British parliament on the eve of Kashmir Solidarity Day which was organized by all parties parliamentary group on Pakistan.

Qureshi said that the seminar that is being organized here gives us comfort in a fact that the conscious of humanity is not dead and added that the freedom-loving, just and God fearing people the world over still care about the plight of the people in India Occupied Kashmir.

He said that no doctrine of state security or sovereignty can justify heinous acts of violence. "Justice may be delayed but will not be denied," Qureshi said.

"To our Kashmiri brethren I wish to assure that they are not alone in their just struggle and we will continue to lend every possible political, diplomatic and moral support to their freedom struggle," he said.

He said that the UN report on Kashmir demands formation of a commission of inquiry. He said it is time that a commission of inquiry must be constituted and people must be named, blamed and shamed. Evidences must be gathered and cases must be built and murderers must be prosecuted.

He urged international media for objective and detailed reporting on the ongoing atrocities in the India Occupied Kashmir by the Indian forces.