ISLAMABAD: The All Parties Conference (APC) on Kashmir organized by Jamat e Islami (JI) condemned the attempts made by Indian government to change demography of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) by changing status of the territory and settling non-Kashmiris belonging to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in the valley.
The leadership attending the APC expressed concerns over change in disputed status of IIOJK by the Indian government through changing domicile-related laws to manipulate ratio of population in the territory.
“We condemn these Indian steps of changing demography of IIOJK as glaring violation of the United Nations resolutions, international laws and recognised human rights,” the declaration passed by the APC said.
The event was held in connection with Kashmir Solidarity Day falling on February 05, which w as addressed by JI central ameer Hafiz Naeemur Rehman, Senator Mushahid Husain Sayed, former president Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Sardar Masood Khan, former AJK prime minister Sardar Attique Khan, Nayyar Hussain Bokhari of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Abdullah Gul, JI AJK ameer Dr Mushtaq Khan, ex AJK ameer Abdur Rashid Turabi, JI naib ameers Mian Muhammad Aslam and Liaquat Baloch, JI director for foreign affairs Asif Luqman Qazi and Kashmiri leader Ghulam Safi and others.
The APC also condemned continuous detention of Kashmiri leaders in IIOJK, search operations, restrictions on civil society, media workers and others and confiscation of their properties in the occupied territory, terming them state terrorism.
The APC pledged that the Pakistani people and the state of Pakistan would never deviate from supporting the right to self-determination of Kashmiri people and would also not hesitate from giving any sacrifice for the cause.
On the occasion, “Friends of Kashmir” forum was constituted under the leadership of Senator Mushahid Husain Sayed. The forum will comprise Kashmiri and Pakistani politicians, Hurriyat leaders, members of civil society, media and others.
The Friends of Kashmir will also lobby on Kashmir at the international level. In its declaration, the APC called upon the Pakistan government to play its part for the release of detained Kashmiri leaders, including Yasin Malik, Abdul Hameed Fayyaz, Asiya Andrabi, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Musarrat Alam and Dr Qasim.
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