ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq on Wednesday said the Kashmir dispute was a flashpoint and a permanent threat to the peace of not only for the region, but for the entire world. He urged the international community to play its due role to stop atrocities by the Indian Security Forces in Occupied Kashmir and demanded peaceful settlement of this core issue. He expressed these views in his message on Black Day being observed in protest against Indian tyranny and human rights violations in held Kashmir on 27th October. Expressing solidarity with the people of held Valley, the speaker said that our relations with the Kashmiri brethren was not only based upon religion, civilisation and humanity but also related to blood. He said that Pakistan was firmly committed to finding out a just and peaceful solution of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the UN Security Council Resolutions and aspirations of the people of Kashmir. He assured the Kashmiri people that Pakistan would continue moral, political and diplomatic support at regional and international forums till the realisation of their objectives. He lamented the indiscriminate use of pellet guns on unarmed protestors, incidents of human rights violations, desecration of human lives and rapes in the held valley. He said that the struggle of the Kashmiri people for self determination could not be silenced with guns and atrocities. He was confident that the sacrifices of the Kashmiri people would not go in vain. Sardar Ayaz Sadiq said that human rights violations had a long history in Indian Occupied Kashmir and United Nations had declared IOK a disputed territory. He said that India itself approached the UN and promised to honour the Kashmiris’ right of self determination and promised to hold a plebiscite in IOK.