AJK President appeals to UK to reject India's occupation of Kashmir.

MIRPUR (AJK) -- Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Masood Khan has appealed to the British Parliament and the government to help save the Kashmiris in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJK) from ongoing carnage, incarceration and torture.

'Silence today while Kashmir today is being colonized and destroyed by the fascist regime of India would amount to endorsement of Indian crimes', he said while addressing a packed conference in the House of Commons in London, said an official message released to the media by AJK Presidential Secretariat on Friday.

'India wants the world to look the other way but you must stare India down until it reverses its aggression in IOJK', Sardar Masood said.

He said there is a time to be silent and there is a time to speak; and today is the time to speak to save Kashmiris while Kashmir is being annihilated before your eyes. Compunction later would be too late, too little', he said.

Political activist Faheem Kiani, Chairman Tehreek-i-Kashmir, organized this highly successful Parliamentary event that was skilfully chaired by British MP Honorable Jess Phillips. The conference was especially attended by the Honourable Tom Watson, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, despite the British Parliament's single minded and all-consuming focus on Brexit.

In his remarks on the occasion, the Labour leader expressed strong and unequivocal solidarity with the people of Jammu and Kashmir and criticized the tendency to dehumanize the Kashmiris and Kashmir dispute and conveyed his deep concern over the ongoing punitive communications blockade in the occupied territory.

President Masood Khan thanked the Labour Party's Deputy Leader for and the Labour Party for passing an emergency motion in a recent party conference.

He reminded his audience that last century when Hitler and Mussolini were busy attacking their neighborhoods and Hitler burnt millions of Jews into ashes, the world did not intervene to stop a holocaust. Today, he said, that Modi and his criminal cohorts, were preparing for a genocide and ethnic cleansing of Kashmiris. He informed that in this century, Kashmiris had been designated for annihilation by RSS's death squads and lynching mobs.

The AJK President urged the British parliamentarians not to allow India to hide behind its disingenuous a stance that the...

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