EU must link FTA with India to Kashmiris rights: Masood
ISLAMABAD, March 22: The AJK President Sardar Masood Khan has said that the European States championing freedom, independence and human rights should not give trade concessions to India because the fascist Modi regime will utilize their wealth to manufacture weapons to use against those demanding freedom, right to self-determination and their fundamental rights.
He expressed these views while welcoming the statement of the Chairman European Parliament’s Human Right Committee Marie Arena in which she said that the European Union must examine the human rights situation in India before negotiating a comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with Delhi.
The AJK president said that of late, India has emerged as the worst country in the world in terms of human rights trampling. Excluding a particular section of the Hindu community, all religious minorities are being subjected to hatred, victimisation and discrimination’s, and the Muslims are the specific target of the fascist regime, he added.
The state president asserted that 1.3 billion people of India would have to reap what the BJP regime had been sowing in occupied Kashmir as the seed of hatred.
Sardar Masood Khan warned that those who are celebrating after putting others homes on fire in occupied Kashmir will soon find this fire engulfing their own homes as per the law of nature.
The state president called upon the European states before executing socio-economic agreements with India, they should compel India to respect human rights and freedom of expression in occupied Kashmir as well as the fundamental and democratic right of self-determination of the Kashmiri people.
They should also stress the Indian Government to release political prisoners, ensure the fundamental human rights of the citizens and restore civil liberties in the occupied territory.
The AJK president appealed to the European Union, United Nations, the United States and the international human rights organizations to conduct an independent investigation into the incidents of the massacre of innocent people, enforced disappearances, torture, rape, sexual violence, and curbs on media, which have been continuing in occupied Jammu and Kashmir since August 5, 2019.
Meanwhile, greeting the nation on the occasion of Pakistan Resolution Day, the AJK President Sardar Masood Khan has said that this auspicious day had not only set the direction of the struggle of the Muslims of the subcontinent but on the same day, the people of Kashmir led by Amir-e-Millat Maulana Ghulam Haider Khan Jandalvi had linked their future with the new Muslim state of Pakistan and they are committed to this decisions even after 81 years.
In his special message on Pakistan Day, he said that Pakistan was undoubtedly the last destination of the Kashmiri people, and they would continue their struggle to achieve the goal of freedom from the Indian yoke and the accession of Jammu and Kashmir state to Pakitan in spite of all out difficulties and conspiracies.
He said that the Kashmiri people would compulsorily fulfil their commitment made to Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah to accede to Pakistan.
