By Asghar Ali Mubarak
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister’s National Security Advisor Dr Moeed Yusuf on Friday said Pakistan would continue to do everything to ensure Kashmiris achieve their aspirations. The National Security Advisor in a series of tweets on his official Twitter handle expressed solidarity with Kashmiris and paid tribute to the martyred Kashmiri leader of the freedom movement Mirwaiz Maulvi Muhammad Farooq.
He said, “May 21 is a dark day in the history of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). Today, 31 years ago in 1990, Kashmiri leader of the freedom movement Mirwaiz Maulvi Muhammad Farooq was martyred in Srinagar.”
The National Security Advisor added that illegal Occupation forces opened fire at protestors on his (Mirwaiz Maulvi Muhammad Farooq) funeral martyring 70 more Kashmiris. Dr Moeed said faced with the unyielding spirit of Kashmiri self-determination, human rights violations and fake encounters by occupation forces were continued.
“Their latest victim is Shaheed Ashraf Sehrai. Many more Kashmiri leaders remain incarcerated in IIOJK. Every Pakistani feels their pain and shares their desire for freedom,” he said.
The National Security Advisor said, “No amount of false propaganda aimed at demoralising Kashmiris will change the reality that Pakistan always has and always will stand by the Kashmiris and their right to self determination.”
Earlier on Thursday, Kashmir Committee Chairman Shehryar Khan Afridi called upon the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to take notice of illegal arrest of Ashraf Sehrai’s close family members by the occupational regime in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). Chairing a condolence Reference hosted by the Committee for Mirwaiz Mohammad Farooq Shaheed, Khwaja Abdul Gani Lone, Mohammad Ashraf Khan Sehrai and all martyrs of Kashmiri freedom struggle, Afridi urged the rights activists to press India for immediate release of sons and nephews of the martyrs.
APHC leaders Syed Faiz Naqshbandi, Mohammad Hussain Khateeb and Ghulam Mohammad Safi, Syed Yousaf Naseem, Shaikh Abdul Mateen, Zahid Safi, Shaikh Yaqoob and others attended the reference.
Chairman Kashmir Committee chaired the reference while senior leaders of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) attended the reference. Shehryar Khan Afridi briefed the APHC leadership on the measures taken by the Kashmir Committee to raise the Kashmir dispute and raise awareness on the issue and said that Pakistan would never deviate from the cause of Kashmir.
Ghulam Mohammad Safi led the prayers for solace of the martyrs and success of Kashmiri freedom struggle. Syed Faiz Naqshbandi said that the APHC said that the Illegal occupational regime of India in Jammu and Kashmir was involved in war crimes against the innocent people of Jammu and Kashmir.
He lauded the demand made by Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir Shehryar Khan Afridi for demanding an International Medical Corridor on humanitarian basis for the people of Jammu and Kashmir as India had failed to provide medical assistance to the Kashmiri people held under double lockdown.
Lauding the services of the APHC leadership, Naqshbandi detailed the services of Mirwaiz Farooq Shaheed. Ghulam Mohammad Safi shared the services of Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai for the cause of Kashmir and said that throughout his life, Sehrai never compromised on the cause of Kashmir. He said that it is a must that the new generation of freedom lovers must understand the political movement led by Sehrai Shaheed.
