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India poised to ruin world order, warns AJK president

Sardar Masood Khan reaffirms that Pakistan is incomplete without Indian Occupied Kashmir

Our Correspondent February 24, 2020

File photo of AJK President Sardar Masood Khan. PHOTO: ANADOLU AGENCY

LAHORE: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan has warned that India is poised to ruin the world order which was framed on the principle of rule of law following the Second World War.

While addressing the opening session of a conference on “Resolution of the Kashmir Issue: Pakistan’s Options in the Realm of International Law and Global Politics" in Lahore on Monday, he said: "The United Nations is striving for combating climate change and sustainable development, but is not fulfilling its basic responsibilities of preventing the disasters of war, genocide, ethnic cleansing and the human rights violations."

Emphasising on the liberation of Indian Occupied Kashmir, President Masood said that Pakistan is incomplete without IOK. "The ongoing liberation movement in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir is the struggle for completion of Pakistan, and under the international law, Pakistan can move the International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court and International Law Commission against India's unlawful, unconstitutional and immoral actions, and can demand setting up of a tribunal,"

In the same breath he said: “We will have to weigh whether it will be in our interest to withdraw the Kashmir issue from the Security Council and take it to the ICC, ICJ or International Law Commission.”

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He pointed out that although global politics overall is not in favour of Pakistan and Kashmiris, but the good news is that the international civil society has decided to support people of Pakistan and Kashmir.

"After August 5 last year, a big development has taken place in the world that earlier we went to the European Parliament and call on lawmakers during informal meetings but they referred to their trade relations with India and were not ready to hear anything about Kashmir, but this situation has changed altogether after New Delhi’s brutal clampdown on August’5, and they have changed their narratives on the Kashmir conflict," he said, adding that not only European and UK parliaments but the French Parliament, for the first time in the history, held its sessions on Kashmir while the US Congress also held three sessions on Kashmir recently.

These developments, he said, have opened up new doors for us to narrate the story of Kashmir. "In the changed global scenario, we should build our narrative afresh, and use all available options."

At home, he stressed, that the environment of unity and cohesion should be maintained in Pakistan and Azad Kashmir, and a unanimous stand on the Kashmir issue should be adopted to take the 72 years old liberation struggle of the Kashmiri people to its ultimate end.

Organised by Departments of Political Science and International Relations of the University of Management and Technology (UMT) Lahore, the conference was also addressed by former foreign minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasur, Azad Kashmir ex-prime minister Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan, President UMT Ibrahim Hassan Murad, Lt. Gen. (retd) Javed Hassan, leader of All Parties Hurriyet Conference Syed Abdullah Gilani and an expert on international law Ahmar Bilal Soofi among others.