WASHINGTON (TDI): Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US Rizwan Saeed Sheikh has called on the international community and human rights organizations to play their role in highlighting the plight of Kashmiri people in Indian Occupied Kashmir and also in facilitating a solution to the long-standing issue.
“The case is in our favour; It’s only a matter of the right timing in international politics….,” he said, while referring to UN Security Council resolutions granting the right of self-determination to the Kashmiri people to decide their future through a UN-supervised plebiscite.
“History is on our side,” the Ambassador told a gathering at the Pakistan Embassy held to commemorate Kashmir Black Day.
The Day is commemorated annually on October 27 to signify the day in 1947 when India forcibly occupied the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
“The historical record is an asset for us, and it needs to be referenced and upheld,” the envoy said.
According to the ambassador issues of Kashmir and Palestine have common origin and these should be taken together, as they will reinforce each other.
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He hoped that following the US election, the ongoing brutalities in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories will be addressed.
Earlier, messages from President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif and Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar were read on the occasion.
The Secretary-General of World Kashmir Awareness Forum, Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai; Director of All Neighbors International, Ilyas Masih; Pastor William Archer of the Humanitarian and Theologian at Potomac Valley Church; former ICNA President Zahid Bukhari; and Dr. Imtiaz Khan, Professor at George Washington University, also spoke on the occasion, also spoke on Kashmiris’ legitimate struggle for self-determination.
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According to APP video messages from Senator Mushahid Hussain; Secretary-General of the US Council of Muslim Organizations (UCMO), Oussama Jammal; Dr. Farhan Chak, Professor of Political Science at Durham University, Canada; and a special documentary on the struggle of the Kashmiri people were also presented in the large gathering.
