Kashmir Debate in the House of Commons will be on 26th March 2020

Birmingham: Fahim Kayani President Tehreek-e-Kashmir UK said that Debbie Abrahams MP chairperson All Party Parliamentary Group on Kashmir secured the debate in the House of Commons on the current situation of Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir on 26th March 2020. Labour Party MP Debbie Abrahams was denied entry to India last month. Kayani urged British Pakistani and Kashmiri community to invite their MP to attend the debate and become voice of voiceless people of Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

Fahim Kayani said that this will be the fourth debate on Kashmir  in the House of Commons in last 20 years.

First Debate on Kashmir was secured by Conservative Party MP Steve Baker on 15 September 2011 for to ‘give a voice to the thousands of British Kashmiri constituents who are entitled to representation in their parliament .MPs discussed human rights issues and the atrocities carried out on in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir during the three hour debate, watched by a packed public gallery.

Second debate took place on 11 September 2014 that debate was opened by David Ward, Liberal Democrat MP for Bradford East. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Tobias Ellwood, responded to the debate for the Government.

Third debate was convened by conservative party MP David Nuttal MP, chairman all party parliamentary group on Kashmir on 19th Jan 2017.
The Motion was  debated and approved during the debate in the House of Commons on 19th Jan 2017.

“That this House notes the escalation in violence and breaches of international human rights on the Indian side of the Line of Control in Kashmir; calls on the Government to raise the matter at the United Nations; and further calls on the Government to encourage Pakistan and India to commence peace negotiations to establish a long term solution on the future governance of Kashmir based on the right of the Kashmiri people to determine their own future in accordance with the provisions of UN Security Council resolutions.”