No lasting peace in South Asia without Kashmir solution: APHC AJK
Islamabad: All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir leaders have said that the recent war situation between nuclear powers, India and Pakistan, after the Pahalgam incident has once again made it clear that lasting peace cannot be established in South Asia without a resolution to the long-pending Kashmir dispute.
According to Kashmir Media Service, APHC AJK Convener Ghulam Muhammad Safi and other Hurriyat leaders along with Azad Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Latif Akbar highlighted the Indian aggression in Pakistan and Azad Kashmir after the Pahalgam incident and Pakistan’s successful operation ‘Bunyan Al Marsoos’ in response to it and the current dire situation in occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
They congratulated the government, people and armed forces of Pakistan on behalf of the Kashmiri people on the brilliant success of operation ‘Bunyan Al Marsoos’. They said that the killing of 26 civilians in Pahalgam was condemned by Pakistan, the Kashmiri people and every person of conscience.
However, they said, the BJP’s Hindutva government imposed war on Pakistan by blaming Pakistan and Kashmiris without any evidence and suspended the Indus Water Treaty.
Ghulam Muhammad Safi said that Pakistan offered an independent and transparent international investigation into the incident, but India, drunk with power, became the plaintiff and judge, bringing the South Asian region to the brink of war. After this, the world saw who were the lions of Allah and who were the paper lions. The whole world witnessed how India, which called itself the only power in the region with the help of media houses, lost its senses after hitting the vest, he added.
He said the Pakistani media has badly exposed the Indian media before the world. He made it clear that there can be no lasting peace in South Asia without a solution to the Kashmir dispute. A just and final solution to the dispute is possible not through state terrorism or war, but through peaceful negotiations, he maintained.
He urged the international community to put pressure on India for the immediate release of illegally detained Kashmiri Hurriyat leaders and also drew the attention of the world powers to the statement of the Indian Prime Minister in which he called the ceasefire only a temporary pause.
The press conference was attended by senior Hurriyat leaders Muhammad Farooq Rahmani, Mahmood Ahmed Saghar, Advocate Pervaiz Ahmed, Syed Yousuf Naseem, Mir Tahir Masood, Shamim Shawl, Raja Khadim Hussain, Syed Ijaz Rahmani, Sheikh Abdul Mateen, Sheikh Yaqoob, Zahid Safi, Amtiaz Wani, Zahid Ashraf, Shaheen Chaudhry, Mian Muzaffar, Muhammad Ashraf Dar, Syed Gulshan, Javed Iqbal Butt, Sheikh Abdul Majid, Nazir Karnai, Manzoor Ahmed Dar, Muhammad Shafi Dar, Adeel Mushtaq, Mushtaq Ahmed Butt and Chairperson of Peace and Culture Mushaal Hussein Mullick, in addition to representatives of civil society.
