MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Kashmir Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwarul Haq has said there is no political prisoner in Azad Kashmir, adding people in AJK enjoy fundamental democratic freedom.
There is a people’s representative coalition government in Azad Kashmir, Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwarul Haq said while talking to the students.
He said Azad Kashmir is a peaceful region, there is no a single political prisoner in Azad Kashmir, adding people have access to basic democratic freedoms, and a representative government has been established in Azad Kashmir based on a coalition of allied parties.
Chaudhry Anwarul Haq said in Azad Kashmir, the development budget is distributed equally between the government and the opposition.In occupied Kashmir, 900,000 Indian troops are committing atrocities on the unarmed citizens of occupied Kashmir.
The PM added that oppressed citizens in occupied Kashmir are being subjected to brutality, adding, ‘We pay tribute to the martyrs of the armed forces of Pakistan. Our life and death are with Pakistan.’
Our ancestors had approved the resolution of accession to Pakistan before the formation of Pakistan. We have a historical relationship with Pakistan. God willing, the time is not far when occupied Kashmir will be completely free from Indian domination, he said.
The prime minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJKPM) Chaudhry Anwar ul Haq has said that the United Nations should discharge its legal and moral responsibilities vis a vis holding a referendum in Kashmir to allow Kashmiris to determine their political future.
The prime minister Haq said this while talking to a delegation of students from Quaid-e-Azam University who called on him here today.
Speaking on the occasion, the PM said that Kashmiris have been fighting for their legitimate political rights guaranteed to them under multiple UN resolutions. He said that to highlighting the Kashmir cause and strengthening the Kashmir movement was his government’s first priority.
Referring to the prevailing political and human rights situation in the Indian occupied territory of Jammu and Kashmir, the PM said that the presence of nearly a million Indian military and paramilitary troops in the region pose a serious threat to the lives of Kashmiri people, properties and their identity.
The Indian troops, he said, have wreaked havock in the region by killing innocent civilians.Citing the continued repression of political and human rights, the PM pointed out that thousands of Kashmiris have been booked under infamous laws and left hundreds of Hurriyet leaders to rot in prisons outside Kashmir who are languishing for last two decades under Indian draconian law.
