All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), a Srinagar based alliance of pro-freedom Kashmiri political groups, has asked Islamabad not to stop the Kashmiris from marching across the Line of Control (LoC) if it is unable to take any “solid and practical steps” itself in response to India’s aggression on Kashmir.
This demand was made by Syed Abdulah Gillani convenor of the AJK chapter of APHC at a press conference, here on Monday. He was flanked by other representatives, including Syed Ejaz Ahemd Shah, Ishtiyaq Hameed, Abdul Majeed Mir, Pervez Ahmed Shah, Raja Khadim Hussain and Zahid Safi.
Mr Gillani maintained that the way Prime Minister Imran Khan had pleaded the case of Kashmiris before the international community in the wake of India’s Aug 5 or the people of Pakistan had raised voice for the rights of Kashmiris was commendable.
“However, all these steps and efforts have not brought any change on the ground in occupied Kashmir. True, the political, moral and diplomatic support by Pakistan has boosted the morale of the struggling Kashmiris, it has however neither stood in the way of India’s nefarious designs nor has it reduced atrocities by Indian forces,” he said.
Mr Gillani said the kind of “solid and practical steps” Kashmiris had been expecting of Pakistan in retaliation of Indian aggression were nowhere in sight perhaps because of the problems and difficulties Pakistan was facing itself.
“That’s why we are not making any complaints. But at least we cannot sit at ease amid the prevailing situation and that’s why we call upon Pakistan that if you are unable to take any solid and practical steps in response to Indian aggression you should not create any hurdles in the way of our actions.”
“If we, the Kashmiris, want to breach this bloody line (LoC) to help our brethren on the other side, you should not stop us. Instead you should extend us as much as possible support, in this regard,” he said.
Mr Gillani said it was not fair for the world community not to do anything on its own nor let Pakistan do anything to help the oppressed Kashmiris.
“If we want to fight our own war and [...] you impede our efforts we will not accept and appreciate it,” he said.
The APHC convenor maintained that on both sides of the LoC hundreds of thousands of youngsters were eager to dash against any storm.
He said Kashmiris did realize that the international community was not prepared to bail out them due to its economic interests and other compulsions.
“If we want to help ourselves, no body should have any problem with it. We therefore demand that we should not be deprived of our right to advance our struggle and fight the war of our survival.”
“The world should not have any doubt in the fact that the Kashmiris are fully determined and united to take their struggle to its logical end,” he said.
He told that Oct 27 would be marked as ‘black day’ to condemn Indian invasion of Kashmir on this day in 1947.
AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider would attend a function under the aegis of APHC on that day, he said.
Tariq Naqash
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