MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Kashmir Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwarul Haq has said there is no political prisoner in Azad Kashmir, adding people in AJK enjoy fundamental democratic freedom.
There is a people’s representative coalition government in Azad Kashmir, Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwarul Haq said while talking to the students.
He said Azad Kashmir is a peaceful region, there is no a single political prisoner in Azad Kashmir, adding people have access to basic democratic freedoms, and a representative government has been established in Azad Kashmir based on a coalition of allied parties.
Chaudhry Anwarul Haq said in Azad Kashmir, the development budget is distributed equally between the government and the opposition. In occupied Kashmir, 900,000 Indian troops are committing atrocities on the unarmed citizens of occupied Kashmir. The PM added that oppressed citizens in occupied Kashmir are being subjected to brutality, adding, ‘We pay tribute to the martyrs of the armed forces of Pakistan. Our life and death are with Pakistan.’
Our ancestors had approved the resolution of accession to Pakistan before the formation of Pakistan. We have a historical relationship with Pakistan.
God willing, the time is not far when occupied Kashmir will be completely free from Indian domination, he said. Earlier, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwarul Haq has said India will not dare to attack Pakistan again adding that the nation was united against any external threats. Addressing the relief cheque distribution ceremony held in Muzaffarabad on Thursday, Anwarul Haq said that the government and people of Azad Kashmir owe a debt of gratitude to the federal government for supporting them in testing times.
Anwarul Haq stressed the need for keeping a constant guard to counter any potential threat from the enemy. The ceasefire offers an opportunity to restore peace in the region, he said.
Referring to the intensifying atrocities against people of Indian-occupied Kashmir following the Phalgam incident, the PM said 3,000 civilians have been subjected to enforced disappearances by the Indian army following the Pahalgam false flag operation.
“Since then the occupation forces have destroyed 60 residential houses”, the PM said, adding that scores of women who returned from Azad Kashmir to occupied Kashmir along with their spouses were asked to leave immediately after the Pahalgam attack.
The PM reiterated the Kashmiris’ pledge to take the ongoing freedom movement to its logical conclusion. –Agencies
