Pakistan exposes India’s ‘ugly face’ before world in post August-5 scenario: APHC

 Acknowledging the measures taken by Pakistan after India’s illegal actions of August-5, senior leader of All Pakistan Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Syed Mushtaq Gilani Saturday said now the ‘ugly face’ of India and its so-called claim of being a secular state had fully been exposed before the world.

“Now, it is the prime responsibility of the international community especially the influential countries to come forward and play their due role in giving the people of IIOJK their legitimate right of self-determination, which has been denied since 1947,” he said in an interview with APP.

In violation of Indian sub-continents partition formula, he said India illegally held the Muslim majority area of Kashmir and let a reign of terror there to prolong their subjugation despite the United Nations Security Council passed a dozen of resolutions in favour of people of Kashmir.

On February 5, Mushtaq Gilani said, Pakistanis and Kashmiris residing in all parts of the world would express complete solidarity with the people of IIOJK, reminding the international human rights ‘champions’ of their lawful and moral obligation of ensuring the right to self-determination to Kashmiris.

He said people of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) were facing worst-ever suppression and atrocities at the hands of occupation forces and Modi-led fascist government, which stripped the held territory of its special status, on August 5, 2019, by revoking Articles 370 and 35-A to change its demographic apartheid.

Terming Pakistan and Kashmir ‘two hearts and one soul,’ the APCH leader said in principle IIOJK was the part of Pakistan as per the two-nation theory envisioned and got implemented by founder Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

The APHC leader paid tribute to the Quaid for his ‘political wisdom’ and ‘farsightedness’ in securing a separate homeland for Muslims of the Indian sub-continent.

“He (Quaid) had the vision that in a united Hindustan, Muslims can never progress. Now, Muslims residing in India have this realization,” he said.

Answering a question, Mushtaq Gilani suggested the Pakistani government to set up a special ‘Kashmir Desk’ in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for more effective projection of the Kashmir cause and massive human rights violations being committed by Indian forces in the IIOJK.

He thanked Pakistan for extending all possible political, diplomatic and morale support to the people of occupied Kashmir in getting their inalienable right of self-determination.