Washington, August 23, 2023 (PPI-OT): Speakers at an event in Maryland (US) have said that the unparalleled sacrifices rendered by the people of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir for freedom will not go in vain. According to Kashmir Media Service, they were addressing at a reception hosted in the honour of Sardar Abdul Khalique Wasi, former member of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Council at Kashmir House in Maryland.
Sardar Abdul Khalique Wasi in his address said, Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir is facing the worst kind of persecution unleashed by 900,000 Indian military and paramilitary personnel. He said, civilians are being killed, maimed, blinded, incarcerated, tortured and humiliated by the Indian occupational forces personnel enjoying impunity under draconian laws.
“Modi administration is using all available military might to suppress the peaceful political resistance movement of Kashmir. It is vitally important that self-determination be granted to the people of Jammu and Kashmir to bring peace and stability to the region of South Asia,” he said.
Sardar Abdul Khalique Wasi urged the Kashmiri American community, living in Washington and New York metropolitan areas to participate in a peaceful protest at the United Nations headquarters in New York on September 22, 2023, during the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech to the UN General Assembly. He added that the sacrifices given by the people of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir are unparalleled in the history of South Asia and we cannot let these sacrifices go in vain under any circumstances.
Sardar Abdul Khalique Wasi maintained that the people of Azad Kashmir have always stood by the people of IIOJK in this endeavor, and other countries of the world should take note of the atrocities committed by India against the oppressed Kashmiris. He emphasized that the Kashmiris, regardless of their political affiliation or ideology, will not accept any solution for Kashmir other than the right to self-determination.
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