World urged to take notice of HR violations in IIOJK

ISLAMABAD, Oct 27 (NNI): Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb on Thursday urged the international community to take note of gross human rights violations in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
The minister, in her message on “Kashmir Black Day” annually observed on October 27, said that Pakistan would continue its moral, diplomatic and political support to the people of Kashmir.
75 years ago on this day, brutal Indian forces had illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
She said Pakistan was standing like a leaden wall in the seven-decade-long journey of Kashmiri people to freedom.
She said no power in the world could suppress the Kashmir cause, and this journey would end only after the freedom of Kashmir. The sacrifices of the Kashmiri people for the freedom movement were unmatched and unforgettable. It was difficult to find an example of those sacrifices.
Kashmiris have proved that India cannot weaken their spirit of freedom through brutal use of force. There was one Indian soldier for every ten Kashmiris in IIoJK, she said.
Federal Minister for Water Resources Syed Khurshid Ahmad Shah has said that Pakistan will continue to raise the lingering Kashmir dispute at all international forums
Syed Khurshid Ahmad Shah in a media interview in Islamabad said that Pakistan would extend all possible support to Kashmiris for the realization of their right to self-determination.
He said that the Kashmiri people were not alone in their just struggle for freedom from the illegal Indian occupation, adding the world community should come forward with practical steps that would force India to reverse its present course against the Kashmiris.
He said, “Kashmir is our jugular vein, adding, the day is not far when the Kashmiris will determine their future.”
He assured that the Pakistani leadership and the entire nation always stand with Kashmiris in their struggle for freedom from the illegal Indian occupation.
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar has urged the international community not to look away but resolve the lingering Kashmir dispute.
Hina Rabbani Khar addressing an event in connection with Black Day at the Foreign Office in Islamabad on Thursday, she said, “We must not allow the next generation in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir live under subjugation.” She reminded that the United Nations had accepted the right to self-determination of the Kashmiri people seventy five years back. NNI