LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan Ameer, Senator Sirajul Haq has called upon the government and the parliament to give a road map for the liberation of Kashmir as the Indian forces brutalities in Held Kashmir had crossed all limits.
Speaking at a reception hosted by him for the Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir, Raja Farooq Haider in Islamabad on Wednesday, he said that the crisis in Held Kashmir had deepened and called for immediate notice. JI Azad Kashmir chief Abdur Rashid Turabi, also addressed the gathering.
Sirajul Haq said that curfew continuing in Held Kashmir for the last 68 days due to which there was a shortage of food and medicines in the markets.
He said the Indian occupation forces have martyred five lakh Kashmiris during the last 68 years while than 23,000 respectable ladies had been disgraced. Children had been killed and schools had been put on fire. The crops of the Kashmiris were destroyed. He said that in spite of these conditions, the Kashmiris were raising slogans of liberation and Pakistan Zindabad.
The JI chief said that all political and religious parties of the country were agreed upon one point agenda of the government on Kashmir. He impressed upon the government to devise a Kashmir policy in consultation with all the parties which enjoyed constitutional backing and could not altered by any government.
He expressed the hope that AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider would make Azad Kashmir the base camp for the liberation of Kashmir.
Sirajul Haq urged the Pakistan government to raise the budget for Azad Kashmir to build the area as a models taste. He said that the present budget for Azad Kashmir was too small.
He announced that he would act as the ambassador and the spokesman of the Kashmiris. He said that the people of his village in Lower Dir and district had been taking part in the Kashmir Jehad.
The Azad Kashmir Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider said that the Kashmir issue was the left over part of the division of the Indo- Pakistan sub continent. Pakistan government and nation should jointly strive for its solution.
He said that the JI leadership right from its founder Maulana Syed Ala Maudoodi to Sirajul Haq had been giving top priority to the Kashmir issue. He said that Sirajul Haq was the envoy for the Kashmiris as he had staged a march from Muzaffarabad to Chakothi which had raised the morale of the Kashmiris People.
The AJK Premier said there was need to create full awareness about the background of the Kashmir issue in the Pakistan government and its masses and the political leadership also required briefing on the latest situation.
He said that Indian Prime Minister Modi was out to wipe out the Kashmiri leadership and there were serious threats to the life of Syed Ali Gilani and Yaseen Malik. He said that this aspect must be kept before the joint session of the parliament in Pakistan.
JI Azad Kashmir chief Abdur Rashid Turabi said that the Kashmiris were determined not to accept anything short of liberation and added that freedom of Kashmir was the writing on the wall as Modi had failed to crush the Kashmiris spirit for liberation.
