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MIRPUR (AJK): Azad Jammu & Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan Friday prevailed upon the people to thwart conspiracies of the enemies through faith and unity.
He underlined that the Muslims were the followers of Prophet The Great (Peace be upon him), who emerged from Hira cave all alone, and had compelled the then superpower to surrender, and now the number of his followers had exceeded two billion and the echo of Allah o Akbar had risen today throughout the world right from North America up to Asia and Africa to Europe.
Talking to an an18-member delegation led by Sardar Mohammad Altaf Khan and Maulana Abdur Razzak in Rawalakot city , he said that we were the followers of a great religion that united mankind in the bond of unity and we must not develop differences for the sake of minor interest, AJK President office told media.
The president said that we needed not be apologetic against India as it had not only occupied our territory but had attacked our culture, civilization and religious values, which was intolerable.
He advised the people to renounce from narrow view and intolerance while remaining in different political parties, and join hands for a common and greater cause of Kashmir’s liberation from a tyrant power.
Quoting his own example, Sardar Masood Khan said that he had been struggling for the Kashmir cause on the diplomatic fronts since 1990, and wherever he had gone, he had compelled the Indians to retreat on every forum, and had exposed their false narrative.
The president realized that the people of Thorarr including a woman Hussain Bibi had offered great sacrifices in the Kashmir liberation war, and had written a history of valour and courage.
He warned India to think ten times before the attack on Azad Kashmir that not only the men but women were also ready to inflict a severe blow on the aggressor.
On the occasion, leader of the delegation and the PML-N leader Sardar Altaf paid tributes to the AJK president for his political and diplomatic services on the global level.
Later, the delegations led by Sardar Ashiq, Sardar Javed and Mumtaz separately called on the AJK President and apprised him of the problems of their respective areas. The president assured to resolve all their legitimate issues.
The AJK president earlier also inaugurated recently constructed two link roads at Gali Trar and Tarnoti areas located in the outskirt of Rawalakot.
Earlier, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan has urged people of the liberated territory to practically contribute to turning the Kashmir resistance movement into a global campaign to end the Indian occupation of Jammu and Kashmir.
Addressing Youth Skills Enhancement Conference organized by the State~run Women’s University in Bagh city of AJK in collaboration with a UK-based NGO BTM Global on Tuesday, he said that the international community and the UN Security Council would come into action only when the Kashmir liberation movement becomes an international campaign against Indian colonial rule, AJK President secretariat said in a media release late Tuesday.
He said that the youth of Azad Kashmir, on one hand, should keep themselves abreast with the emerging technologies to make AJK and Pakistan strong economic powers and on the other help their brothers and sister in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir whose demand for freedom and dignity is being reciprocated with bombs and bullets.
“Tragically, the Indian Army martyr or put in the torture cells the Kashmiri children of 12 to 14 years of age declaring them terrorists. Defending your life, property and honour is not terrorism or even illegitimate act under international law,” he added.
Appreciating the efforts of the BTM Global for acquainting the youth of Azad Kashmir with the new expertise and the skills, the state president said that the BTM’s vision, if implemented in letter and spirit, can bring about a revolution in the liberated territory.
He expressed the satisfaction that the public sector universities of Azad Kashmir had introduced programs and disciplines of tourism, hospitality, gardening, biotechnology, computer technology and artificial intelligence etc, and said that this will help achieve in the economic field what we could not gain in the last 70 years.
Sardar Masood Khan particularly lauded the social services offered by the BTM Global during the recent coronavirus pandemic as well as its intervention in education, health and social welfare sectors in Azad Jammu and Kashmir. He said that the youth should gain expertise in entrepreneurship to become self earner instead relying on government jobs.
Addressing the conference, prominent intellectual Brig (retd) Dr Mohammad Khan said that in today’s age, the survival and security of nations depend not on a big size of the army and war arsenal, but a strong economy. Unemployment is the main reason for poverty in Pakistan, and it is high time to create new job opportunities for skilled youth. He appreciated the efforts of BTM Global for imparting life skills to youth of Azad Kashmir to create a space for income generation in the state.
The BTM Chief Sumera Farrukh while appreciating Women University Bagh for organizing Skills Enhancement Conference said that her organization besides imparting vocational training to more than 1,400 youth, had provided furniture to the educational institutions of Azad Kashmir, and now a women’s hospital is being established at Palai in Mirpur for which the whole medical equipment would be imported from the UK.
Sumera Farukh also showered praises on AJK President Sardar Masood for untiring efforts to highlight plights of oppressed people of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and encouraging her organization to serve the marginalized people of AJK. The conference was also addressed among others by Vice-Chancellor Women Univesity Bagh Prof Dr Abdul Hameed, Commissioner Poonch Division Abdul Hameed Mughal.
President later also addressed a similar conference Organized by BTM Global in collaboration with the University of Poonch Rawalakot and urged the private sector to come forward and addressed the menace of unemployment that hindered progress and prosperity of the country. The President also held meetings with different public delegations at Circuit House Ralawakot.
