Masood demands UNSC session, special envoy on Kashmir
Staff Reporter
Islamabad
The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan has called upon the United Nations to immediately intervene and convene a session of the Security Council in order to save the lives of eight million Kashmiris living under India’s inhuman lockdown, curfew and military oppression. ‘The UN Secretary-General should appoint a special envoy on Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ&K) and the Security Council should hold meetings on Kashmir to come up with a roadmap to implement its resolutions on Kashmir. There should be meetings, and there should be a product.’ Khan told an engaging video conference attended by key UK parliamentarian, Kashmiri and Pakistani leaders and representatives of the diaspora community.
Chaired by Raja Najabat Hussain, the conference was also addressed by Governor Punjab Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar, Pakistan High Commissioner to UK Mohammad Nafees Zakariya, Chairperson All Parties Parliamentary Group on Kashmir Debbie Abrahams, MPs Angela Rayner, Jack Britton, MP Andrew Gwynne, James Daly, Sarah Owen, Yasmin Qureshi, Mohammad Yasin, former MEPs Shafq Mehmood, Julie Wards, Senator Faisal Javed, Member of National Assembly Naureen Farooq Ibrahim, Member of AJK Legislative Assembly Sehrish Qamar, Convener Hurriyat Conference Azad Kashmir Faiz Naqshbandi, Abdul Hameed Lone, and others.
Majority of the British parliamentarians attending the Kashmir webinar said Kashmir was an international, not a bilateral, issue and demanded international intercession to end human rights violations in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and resolve the issue in accordance with Kashmiris’ wishes. Addressing the conference as the chief guest, the AJK President Sardar Masood Khan thanked all parliamentary political parties of the UK for expressing concern over the situation of occupied Kashmir and stressing the need for a peaceful political and diplomatic settlement of the Kashmir conflict. He made it clear that Pakistan was ready for the solution of Kashmir issue through all means including third-party mediation, in which the Kashmiris are also involved as a party to the dispute.
