*MUZAFFARABAD: **Newly elected British Kashmiris MPs to become voice ofOccupied Kashmir in World against India.*
The newly elected British Kashmiri MPs have said that they would become thevoice of millions of people of Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) in and outsidethe Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Fifteen Britons of Pakistani and Kashmiri descent were elected to the UKParliament in Friday’s general election which saw Prime Minister BorisJohnson returning to power after his Conservative party scored the biggestelectoral win since 1987.
The Tehreek-e-Kashmir (TeK) has described the victory of 15 Pakistani andKashmiri origin Britons in the British elections as a “great moment” forthe Pakistani and Kashmiri diaspora in the UK. “It is a matter of pridethat nine of the 15 newly-elected MPs belong to Azad Jammu & Kashmir(AJK),” Raja Fahim Kayani, the president of TeK’s UK chapter, said in astatement.
The Narendra Modi-led Indian government had stripped the IOK of itssemi-autonomous constitutional status on August 5 and clamped a cruelcurfew in the disputed region in an attempt to muzzle any protest againstits illegal move. The curfew remains in place ever since while theinternational community maintains a criminal silence over the draconianmove.
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“I assure the people of IOK that we will support their cause according tothe resolutions of UN Security Council,” said MP Afzal Khan, who has beenelected to the UK Parliament on a Labour Party ticket from GortanManchester. “We will continue raising our voice for the Kashmiris in IOK,”he said while speaking to The Express Tribune by the phone.
Khalid Mehmood, also Labour Party MP from Birmingham, voiced similarsentiments, saying that they would stand with their Kashmiri brethren inthe IOK through thick and thin.