Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has called upon the government to immediately convene an international conference in Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu & Kashmir and give a road map for the liberation of Indian-Held Kashmir. Addressing an impressive Kashmir march on Saturday, he said that Muslim rulers and freedom loving leaders all over the world should be invited at the Kashmir moot. He said that Kashmir cannot be liberated by just observing a minute silence or by foreign minister’s address in the United Nations. Thousands of people including a large number of women and children joined the march. JI Azad Kashmir Chief Dr Khalid Mahmood, JI Deputy Chief Mian Muhammad Aslam, Senator Mushtaq Ahmed Khan and Dr Tariq Salim also addressed the march. JI Secretary General, Liaquat Baloch and JI Information Secretary Qaisar Sharif were also present. JI Ameer Sirajul Haq said that India was killing innocent Kashmiris and disgracing their women folk. India had thrust three wars on this country and also played a leading role in the separation of East Pakistan. However, he said, the Pakistani rulers had been silent. He said this was the time for Islamabad rulers to break their silence. He said that if the 75 year old Syed Ali Gilani, Yasin Malik, Mir Waiz Umar Farooq and Aasia Andrabi were not ready to yield to Indian oppression, why should the Pakistani rulers be afraid? He said that Pakistani rulers had been begging for dialogue with India and for trade of vegetables with India whose ‘hands are drenched with Kashmiris’ blood’. He said the nation would never accept such talks with India. The JI chief said the blood being shed in Kashmir was of the Pakistani nation and the Muslim Ummah. He said that India could not suppress the Kashmiris’ Liberation Movement as the aged, women and children are all on board with the liberation struggle. He said the Kashmiri women are waiting for a Muhammad bin Qasim, Mehmud Ghaznvi and Salahuddin Ayubi type leader to rescue them. He further said the Kashmir Liberation Movement was an ideological movement and the Pakistani nation would fight it until its last breath. Sirajul Haq said that AJK and Gilgit-Baltistan is spread over an area of more than 35,000 kilometres and was free only because of the sacrifices of the Kashmiris. The greenery in Pakistan was due to the rivers flowing from Kashmir. Published in Daily Times, October 28th 2018.