ISLAMABAD – In occupied Kashmir, Hurriyat leaders have thanked thegovernment and the people of Pakistan for extending full political,diplomatic and moral support to the oppressed people of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Hurriyat forum Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in a message today inconnection with the announcement by Pakistan to observe 05 February asKashmir Solidarity Day said that the people of Kashmir want to see apolitically stable and economically strong Pakistan.
In Birmingham, Marco Longhi, the member of Conservative Party in the UKparliament, addressing a conference on Kashmir, pledged to raise the issueof Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir on the floor of the House.
Earlier in the day, Chairman Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir, FakharImam said that resolution of the long-standing Kashmir dispute is need ofthe hour as two nuclear states are standing eyeball to eyeball over theissue.
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Initiating the discussion over the prevailing situation in the OccupiedKashmir in the National Assembly in Islamabad, he said Kashmiri people arepassing through the worst phase of their lives as they are prisoned intheir own homes.
The Chairman Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir said Indian Occupationforces have destroyed the local economy of Kashmiris and now they aretargeting the innocent people for ethnic cleansing.