Meeting discusses IOK situation, refugees’ problems

Kotli, December 19, 2019 (PPI-OT): The Convener of Jammu and Kashmir Peace Foundation, Advocate Mahmood Ahmed Qureshi, visited Refugee Camp at Gulpur in Kotli district and met with the refugees and their representatives. An important meeting was held at the refugee camp with Mahmud Ahmed Qureshi in chair. The meeting thoroughly discussed the current situation of occupied Kashmir following India’s action of the repealing special status of Kashmir and dividing it into two union territories. The problems being faced by the refugees were also discussed in the meeting.

The speakers said that the Kashmir dispute had been pending with the UN for the past several decades, adding that the refugees had sacrificed their homes for the Kashmir cause and would not hesitate to offer any sacrifice till the settlement of Kashmir dispute. They demanded of the UN to implement its resolutions on Kashmir and ask India to settle the lingering Kashmir dispute according to the will of the Kashmiri people.

Besides Advocate Mahmood Ahmed Qureshi, the meeting was addressed by refugees’ representatives, Haji Muhammad Arif, Sardar Ilyas, Sardar Owais and Muhammad Akram Khan. Meanwhile, the Jammu and Kashmir Ummat-e-Islami leader, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Shah, in a statement issued in Islamabad condemned continued military lockdown and internet gag imposed by Indian government in occupied Kashmir. He said that unabated killings, arrests and curbs could not prevent the people of Kashmir from carrying forward their struggle for right to self-determination.

He also denounced the continued illegal detention of Hurriyat leaders including Muhammad Yasin Malik, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Dr Muhammad Qasim Fakhtoo, Dr Shafi Shariyati, Aasiya Andrabi, Qazi Yasir, Fahmeeda Sofi and Qazi Shibli.

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