Daily Times

ISLAMABAD – The All Parties Hurriyet Conference (G) Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani has said that Kashmir is a human and political issue and Kashmiris are carrying out an indigenous struggle to secure their basic right to self-determination.According to Kashmir Media Service, Ali Gilani in a statement issued in Srinagar said that the people of Jammu and Kashmir were struggling for the just and genuine demand of right to self-determination and this factor was present in every freedom movement of the world including the freedom struggle of India.He said that the Kashmiris are peace-loving people and they are using peaceful means to continue their struggle. In 2008 and 2010, he said, theKashmiri people came out in lakhs on roads to show their inner-self and tried to attract the attention of the international community towards their sufferings. The youth of Kashmir had to pick up the gun only due to the rigid and stubborn approach of Indian government, he pointed out.”India never recognized the peaceful struggle of the Kashmiri people and always used its military might to suppress this struggle. Thousands of innocent Kashmiris have been killed just for demanding the fulfilment of those promises, which India had made with the people of Kashmir on national and international levels and of which its leadership later backtracked,” he emphasized.Syed Ali Gilani maintained that if the world community would take serious steps towards resolving the Kashmir dispute and would provide theKashmiris a chance to decide their future, every Kashmiri would cooperate in every respect in that peaceful process and would not violate the action plan which would be agreed upon between India, Pakistan, world community and the Kashmiris.The APHC (G) Chairman hoped that Pakistan would continue to support the Kashmiris’ struggle on political, diplomatic and moral fronts.