RAWALPINDI: Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Information and Broadcasting Barrister Danyal Chaudhry has said that India’s illegal and sinister attempt to alter the disputed status of occupied Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, 2019, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s fascist and extremist ideology, has failed miserably and has been completely rejected by the Kashmiri people.
He was addressing a ceremony held at Waqar-un-Nisa College, Rawalpindi, to mark Youm-e-Istehsaal Kashmir.
The event was attended by Member National Assembly Engineer Qamar-ul-Islam Raja, Member National Assembly Asiya Naz Tanoli, Deputy Commissioner Rawalpindi Nadeem Nasir, Member Provincial Assembly Shazia Rizwan, Principal of Waqar-un-Nisa College Professor Zahida Parveen, faculty members, students and people from various walks of life.
Barrister Danyal said the Pakistani nation stood like a rock with the Kashmiri people and would never allow the illegal, expansionist and colonial ambitions of the Modi government to succeed.
He said India’s unilateral actions of August 5, 2019, were a clear violation of the UN Security Council resolutions, international law and the UN Charter, adding that such actions could not be accepted by any civilised and law-abiding society.
The parliamentary secretary said India could not alter the internationally recognised disputed status of occupied Jammu and Kashmir through force, coercion or unilateral legislation.
He said all Indian conspiracies to change the demographic composition, settle non-locals and erase the religious, cultural and national identity of the Kashmiri people would fail.
Barrister Danyal said that despite the worst atrocities, sieges, arbitrary arrests, curbs on freedom of expression and grave human rights violations by Indian occupation forces, the Kashmiri people’s spirit of freedom remained unbroken.
He said the Kashmiri people had been rendering unparalleled sacrifices for decades to achieve their right to self-determination, and their struggle could not be suppressed.
