BIRMINGHAM (Kashmir English): President Azad Jammu and Kashmir Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry has urged overseas Kashmiris in the UK to expose Indian atrocities in the occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
He said that India cannot suppress the Kashmiris’ ongoing freedom struggle by the dint of its military might. He said this while addressing a huge gathering of overseas Kashmiris in Birmingham.
Denouncing India’s relentless repression in occupied Kashmir, Chaudhry said, despite using all means of oppression and state-terrorism, India has miserably failed in its attempts to crush the Kashmiris’ legitimate struggle for right to self- determination.
While reminding world community of its responsibilities, he said that the UN should play its role to grant right of self-determination to the Kashmiri people.
Situation in occupied Kashmir
Referring to diaspora community’s role in promoting Kashmir cause at international level, the AJK President said that the dire situation in occupied Kashmir demands overseas Kashmiris’ proactive role to prevent bloodbath of innocent civilians in the occupied territory.
He said that India, which claims to be a secular state and the world’s largest democracy, has broken all records of barbarism and brutality in Kashmir.
Citing the ruthless persecution of religious minorities in India, he said that the country has become a hell for minorities be they Muslims, Christians, Sikhs or untouchables.
The killings of minorities in India, he said, has proved that Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s decision to create Pakistan on the basis of the two-nation theory was right.
Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry said that Modi’s Hindutva policy was not only a threat to religious minorities in India but also in occupied Kashmir.
Chaudhry claimed the rising tides of communalism, xenophobia, hatred and intolerance in Indian society would ultimately lead to disintegration of India.
While highlighting the Indian spy agency RAW’s involvement in the murder of a Sikh activist in Canada, Barrister Chaudhry said that India has now emerged as a global terrorist.
He said that besides Canadian prime minister, the US and other countries also expressed their concern over Indian involvement in global terrorism.
Lauding the present government’s performance, Barrister Chaudhry said that the coalition government was working painstakingly to improve service delivery and to serve the common people.
He said that health, education and other sectors have witnessed lot of improvement in the past couple of years. He assured the gathering that health cards will be issued very soon to provide free of cost medical treatment facilities to the people adding that after health package, education package will also be announced soon.
He said that work on much delayed Rathua Haryam Bridge has started and PC-1 of the Mangla Dam Housing Authority has also been approved.
