Kashmiri diaspora leader rejects Indian hue and cry over foreign diplomat visit to AJK
London: Fahim Kayani, leader of Tehreek-e-Kashmir UK, laying emphasis on increased visits by foreign diplomats based in Pakistan to Azad Kashmir, has rejected India’s so-called protest against the British diplomat’s visit to Mirpur, Azad Kashmir.
According o Kashmir Media Service, Fahim Kayani in a statement issued in London said, “More and more international community and diplomats must visit Azad Kashmir because Pakistan has nothing to hide”.
Tehreek-e-Kashmir UK is a prominent diaspora group which advocates for right to self-determination of Kashmiris.
British High Commissioner to Pakistan Jane Marriott visited Azad Kashmir along with an official from the UK Foreign Office on January 10. India, he added, made unnecessary hue and cry over visit.
“Instead,” Kayani asked New Delhi, “unblock access to Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir where millions of beleaguered Kashmiris have been imprisoned.”
He said New Delhi’s fascist regime led by world’s largest paramilitary RSS has “turned Jammu and Kashmir into an open-air prison.” “India has deployed more than one million of its soldiers in occupied Kashmir, regularly blocks access to communications including internet and phone services.”
“Stop your so-called coercive diplomacy,” Kayani said in hard hitting statement. “Kashmiris will no longer be bullied by your military might.”
Calling India a “rogue state” which has gone crazy with its extra-territorial and extra-judicial activities, Kayani said: “the international community must wake up and halt broad day violation of rule of law and UN Charter where India blocks implementation of UN resolutions on Kashmir and is murdering citizens of other nations through its agents who are taking safe refuge in its diplomatic missions like in Canada.”
