Muzaffarabad:
While President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Sardar Masood Khan welcomed the statements of US Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden regarding restoring the rights of Kashmiris, he said that Biden’s statements are evidence that the international community refused to believe the Indian narrative regarding the occupation. Kashmir.
Biden asked New Delhi to take all necessary steps to restore the rights of all the people of Kashmir, and stressed that restrictions imposed on the opposition, such as preventing peaceful protests or shutting down or slowing down the Internet, weaken democracy.
The former US Vice President also expressed his disappointment over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the enforcement of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in various states in India.
“We welcome the US Democratic Party leader’s remarks and urge Indian Americans and Muslim Americans to applaud Joe Biden’s policy statement together because no one wants India to be ruled by theocratic fascists. The freedoms and fundamental rights of Kashmiris, especially their right to self-determination, should be restored,” President Masoud said in Muzaffarabad on Sunday: “It is a fair demand.”
Earlier, speaking at a function related to distribution of cash grant among those affected by Indian bombing living along the Line of Control, the J&K League president said that the relief provided by the federal government to 610,000 individuals from 80,000 families is an acknowledgment of their sacrifices and also an acknowledgment of the responsibilities they have been given. It is borne by the state government.
“Azad Kashmir is not only a strong line of defense for Pakistan, but people living near the Line of Control and facing direct aggression from India are the defenders of the motherland,” he added.
Commenting on Prime Minister Imran Khan’s announcement of including more than 100,000 people affected by Indian firing on the Line of Control in the Ehsaas Emergency Cash Program and issuing health cards to 1.2 million people in Azad Kashmir, he said that the people of the occupied territories and the liberated territories want to become Part of Pakistan not because of its geographical location but on the basis of its faith and ideology.
Joe Biden seeks to restore the rights of people in occupied Kashmir
The head of the J&K League said that the ruling party in India (Bharatiya Janata Party) and the RSS planned to eliminate the Kashmiri people, occupy their lands, reduce the number of Muslims in occupied Kashmir, and turn the entire state into an Indian colony, but the people of the liberated and occupied parts of Kashmir will show strong resistance. .
He went on to say that it is time for the government and people of Pakistan as well as the brave people of Azad Kashmir to adopt an aggressive policy to confront India because “India constantly threatens to attack Pakistan, Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.” “.
“Instead of saying that we will defend Pakistan and Azad Kashmir, we should also talk about liberating Khalistan, Assam, Tamil Nadu and Mizoram, and tell the world that India is no longer a secular state but has emerged as a fascist state,” he added. He added.
President Masoud also said that India’s anti-Muslim movements have awakened Muslims all over the world, and the wave of renaissance of Islam has risen in the entire Islamic world. “It is now clear that whether it is Kashmir or Palestine, Muslims are ready to protect their interests.”
Referring to Azad Kashmir, he said the liberated territories could become an economic engine for Pakistan. He stressed that 2,000 megawatts of electricity are currently being generated in Azad Kashmir while the region has the potential to produce another 8,000 megawatts of electricity, “although our demand is between 300 and 400 megawatts, and the surplus electricity is being pumped into the region.” National network.
Upon completion of the Kohala, Gulpur, Azad Patan, Daniyal and many other projects in the next decade, Azad Kashmir will become the largest electricity generating region in Pakistan.
President Masoud said that Azad Kashmir is not only of strategic importance for Pakistan’s defence, but can also play an important role in the country’s economic rise. “That is why we say that Pakistan is incomplete without Kashmir, and Kashmir has no identity without Pakistan.”