President Zardari rejects IIOJK polls
Islamabad: President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday categorically rejected the Sham-elections held in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), asserting that the polls were no substitute for the Kashmiri people’s inalienable right to self-determination.
According to Kashmir Media Service, President Zardari, talking to a delegation of migrants from the IIOJK residing in Pakistan since 1989 led by Uzair Ahmed Ghazali
He was of the view that such elections were not unacceptable to the people of Kashmir and called upon the international community to hold the Modi government accountable for ongoing human rights violations in the occupied territory.
He also stressed the need to take concrete steps toward conducting a plebiscite in line with relevant the United Nations Security Council resolutions.
He highlighted that such measures could neither legitimize India’s occupation nor suppress the freedom struggle of the Kashmiri people.
He stated that India was trying to alter the demographic structure of the IIOJK by turning the Kashmiri Muslims into a minority and transforming them into a disempowered community in their own land.
