MIRPUR (Kashmir English): Chairman Parliamentary Kashmir Committee in the National Assembly Rana Qasim Noon has categorically said that Kashmir issue stands as unfinished agenda of the completion of Pakistan.
He urged the world community to perform its role for early settlement of Kashmir issue under the UN resolutions to end the prevailing unrest in the region.
“Pakistan is incomplete without its jugular vein, Kashmir and unless Kashmir was liberated from Indian illegal occupation, the struggle will continue,” he added. He said hearts of the people of Pakistan and Kashmir beat in unison.
Rana Qasim Noon was addressing a news conference after chairing a high-level in-camera meeting of the Parliamentary Kashmir Committee held in Mirpur on Monday.
The meeting of Parliamentary Kashmir Committee, first-ever held in Mirpur, AJK, was attended among others Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Anwar ul Haq, members of the Parliamentary Committee, concerned ministers, AJK Assembly members and high-ranking officials of the concerned government departments.
The in-camera meeting held under the chairmanship of Chairman Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir Rana Muhammad Qasim Noon and was attend by the AJK premier, federal ministers including Dr. Fazal Chaudhry, Malik Abrar Ahmed, Wajia Kanwal, Riaz Fatyana, Sardar Fatehullah Khan, Syed Javed Ali Shah, Muhammad Zahar Khan Leghari, Speaker Azad Kashmir Assembly Latif Akbar and government ministers including Colonel Waqar Ahmad Noor, Chaudhry Muhammad Rashid, Arshad Hussain, Azhar Sadiq, Qasim Majeed and Yasir Sultan.
Kashmir issue
The Chairman said that the committee has decided to take up Kashmir issue at every relevant international forum including OIC, and European Union.
He said that the committee has also decided not to allow Kashmir issue to be thrown at black burner since the issue primarily involves the completion of Pakistan.
He declared that security and stability of both Pakistan and Kashmir was interlinked.
Qasim Noon stated that since United Nations could not so far perform its global responsibility to ensure early settlement of Kashmir issue for the last 77 years, it is enjoined upon the world body besides the international community to perform their due role for peaceful settlement of the conflict without further loss of time.
To a question, Noon said that Pakistan would take up the blatant violations of UN resolutions on Kashmir on the part of India through unwarranted and sinister August 5, 2019 action, abrogating special status of the internationally-acknowledged disputed Jammu Kashmir state in her forced and unlawful occupation.
The Chairman said that Pakistan was fully committed to continue its moral political and diplomatic support to Kashmiris in their just and principled struggle for freedom of the occupied Kashmir from Indian unlawful occupation besides for the speedy progress of AJK, which, he added, is the base camp of the Kashmir freedom movement.
Qasim Noon said that Pakistan government has not only decided to facilitate AJK government for restoration of already available airports in Muzaffarabad and Rawalakot, but also to establish an international standard airport in city of Mirpur.
He further said that classes of various foreign languages will be started in AJK educational institutions to facilitate the skilled and educated unemployed youth seeking to serve abroad in various professions without facing any language barrier.
The Kashmir Committee Chairman strongly condemned the continual reign of state terrorism, violence and massive human rights violations by Indian occupational forces in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
