ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has said that Indian war mongering will endanger not just the South Asian region but also the world at large.
He urged that Pakistan has shown restraint up till now but any aggression from India will meet with full force. Pakistani nation is ready to protect Pakistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity at all costs.
According to the message received from Turkey, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq said this while addressing the 36th Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Parliamentary Union of Islamic Countries (PUIC).
Speakers, Chairpersons, Presidents of the Parliaments and representative bodies of 57 Islamic Countries were also present on the occasion.
He said that world history bears testimony that peace has never prevailed without addressing the root causes of public discord. He warned that regional peace and inclusive development, not only for the sub-continent but for the entire region will remain a mere dream, if the international community keeps side stepping the Kashmir issue.
He further said that India should stop from heightening tension in the greater interest of peace and stability. The entire responsibility would be on India for any eventualities. International Community should focus on Indian belligerence and not Pakistan” the Speaker added.
While addressing, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq demanded that the Secretary General PUIC should hold an independent probe into the recent genocide in Indian held Kashmir, led by Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission or jointly with UNHRC Geneva.
The Speaker lamented that India has employed brutal practices in the occupied valley including unprovoked firing with shotgun pellets, attacking ambulances, hospitals and funerals, clamping curfews, blacking out media, detaining Hurriyat leadership, closing down offices of Amnesty International and other International Human Rights Organizations and refusing to allow UNHCRs’ fact finding mission in Indian Occupied Kashmir to gag the Kashmiri freedom movement.
Sardar Ayaz Sadiq also briefed the participants regarding the brutality of the Indian army and how the children of the Indian held Kashmir have been butchered and blinded by the use of pellet guns through slide show, video clips & Statistics of deaths, eye-injured and other injuries. He added that heart wrenching accounts of the plight of innocent Kashmiri women and children in the face of vicious brutality inflicted on them by Indian security forces has left us speechless.
He said that such barbaric acts perpetrated on innocent Kashmiris by Indian armed forces surmount to breech of all local and international human rights doctrines.
He thrashed India’s lame claims of being democratic and secular and stated that it didn’t even allow the people in Kashmir to offer Eid prayers last month. He hit out at India’s jingoism aimed at Kashmir freedom movement and called it a pretense to repress the freedom movement which has gained fresh momentum after the Shahadat of Burhan Wani. He said that Indian efforts to bury the indigenous Kashmiri movement under the façade of terrorism are a malicious attempt to silence the voice of thousands of suppressed Kashmiris.
Sardar Ayaz Sadiq reiterated that Pakistan never has and never will back away from supporting peaceful resolution of Kashmir issue under the auspices of the UN Charter. While concluding, he urged the international community to take notice of the deteriorating situation in Indian Occupied Kashmir and seek condemnation of the Indian brutalities at the highest level.
The Speaker called on India to end the inhumane repression as early as possible and resolve the issue in accordance with the UN Security Council Resolutions, which allow Kashmiris to exercise their right of self-determination under a UN supervised plebiscite.
