ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday said the
international community must grill India for the continued sufferings of Ka
shmiri people.
“The world needs to tell India that enough is enough,” he said at the International Parliamentary Seminar on Kashmir organised by Young Parliamentarians Forum in collaboration with the Foreign Affairs Ministry.
Nawaz said Pa
kistan would continue to support the struggle of Ka
shmiris for their right to self-determination.
“The voices of Ka
shmiri people for their freedom cannot b
e silenced by the gunfires of Indian security forces,” he said. He termed Kashmir an integral part of Pa
kistan’s identity and said “our hearts beat in sync with Ka
shmiri brethren and we rejoice in their happiness and gloom”.
He said that supporting the just struggle of the Ka
shmiris is an article of faith for every Pa
kistani.
He said that Pa
kistan would always extend moral, political and diplomatic support to Ka
shmiris. The prime minister urged upon the
international community to fulfill its 70-year-old promise with Ka
shmiris to implement the resolutions of Untied Nations Security Council that recognised the right of the Ka
shmiris.
He said the Ka
shmiri youth were writing a new chapter of freedom struggle following the killing of Burhan Wani. Nawaz said Pa
kistan would make sure to highlight the Kashmir issue at every
international forum and mentioned that the government had recently sent lawmakers as its envoys abroad to apprise their counterparts about the plight of the Ka
shmiris.
He quoted American leader Martin Luther King Junior as saying, “History will have to record that the greates
t tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.” He said Pa
kistan desired peaceful relations with all neighbours.
He recalled his four-point agenda presented on United Nation General Assembly’s platform that encompassed solution to the Kashmir issue.
Azad Jammu Kashmir President Masood Khan and Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider were among the participants of the seminar that gathered scholars from Europe and North America.
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