World must act to end Indian brutality in Kashmir: Aizaz
Aizaz Chaudhry said Pakistan will continue to lend moral, political, diplomatic support to Kashmiris
WASHINGTON (Dunya News) – Pakistan ambassador to the United States Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry has said that the international community must play its role in bringing an end to the brutality in Indian Occupied Kashmir.
Addressing a a seminar entitled “Kashmir: The Seventy Years’ Struggle”, held at the Embassy of Pakistan in Washington on Sunday to mark Kashmir Black Day (October 27), Aizaz Chaudhry called upon the international community to take notice of the human rights violations perpetrated by Indian occupation forces in Jammu and Kashmir.
He said the events of the last fifteen months, ever since the death of Kashmiri freedom fighter Burhan Wani, have proven that the spirit and determination of the Kashmiris remains unflinching in the face of Indian brutality. He assured the Kashmiri community that Pakistan will continue to lend moral, political and diplomatic support to Kashmir at all international fora.
Highlighting the historical context of the Kashmir dispute, former ambassador Touqir Hussain and former foreign secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan drew the attention of the international community to numerous UN Security Council resolutions under which the people of Kashmir have been promised the right to self-determination through a UN-mandated plebiscite.
Kashmiri American Committee Secretary General Sardar Zulfiqar Khan, former member Azad Jammu & Kashmir Council Sardar Sawaar Khan and George Washington University professor Dr. Imtiaz Khan also spoke on the occasion.
