London (Arif choudry)
Labor Friends of Kashmir hosted an event on the sidelines of the Labor Party’s annual conference in Brighton. They discussed in detail the ongoing humanitarian crisis in India’s illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
The event, chaired by MP Andrew Gwen, was attended by a large number of Labor Party parliamentarians, members of the British Pakistani community, shadow ministers, Labor Friends of Kashmir, rights activists and media persons.
Expressing solidarity with Kashmiris, British parliamentarians and other speakers called for an immediate end to human rights violations in the IIOJK. He called on the British government as well as the international community to play its part in ending the humanitarian crisis in the IIOJK.
In his address on the occasion, High Commissioner Moazzam Ahmad Khan thanked the House of Commons for the recent debate on highlighting and condemning human rights violations by the Indian occupying forces in the IOJK.
He appreciated the fact that the British Parliament was focusing on the serious human rights violations in Kashmir. He urged the parliamentarians to go beyond the India-Pakistan binary and look at the Kashmir issue in all its humanitarian, political, economic and humanitarian aspects.
The High Commissioner termed India’s move of August 05, 2019, as unilateral and illegal and reaffirmed Pakistan’s support for the Kashmiri people’s right to self-determination in their struggle for justice.
Highlighting the systematic and systematic efforts of the Indian government to curb the Kashmiris’ struggle for independence, he said that it was a pet plan of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindutva-inspired BJP government to separate Kashmiris themselves and Decrease demographics. He condemned the Indian government for not allowing the dignified burial of the body of Kashmiri leader Syed Ali Shah Gilani.
The High Commissioner also briefed the participants on the salient features of the IOJK Dossier recently compiled by the Government of Pakistan, which details the verified accounts of human rights violations by the Indian occupying forces. Dossiers were distributed among the participants of the function.
