AJK President calls for OIC's pro-active role to help resolve Kashmir issue.

MIRPUR [AJK] -- Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry has said that the international community should play its much needed role to help resolve the lingering Kashmir dispute that happens to be the main cause and consequence of bloodshed and human rights violations in the region.

He said this while addressing a special meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) at the United Nations in New York on Thursday, said a news release by AJK President camp office here.

The OIC Secretary General Hussain Ibrahim Taha, Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Nigeria and other Islamic countries also participated in the meeting.

Speaking on the occasion, the president said that the OIC has always supported the Kashmiris' just cause and condemned the human rights violations being committed by the Indian forces in Kashmir. 'Even today, when I come to the meeting of the OIC-Kashmir Contact Group here at the United Nations, I am burdened by the expectations of one and a half million Kashmiri people who want that the member countries of the forum (OIC) should move beyond the political rhetoric, come forward in a big way and openly express their support for Kashmiris' legitimate right, the right of self-determination', Barrister Chaudhary said.

He said that the Kashmiri people in Occupied Kashmir were currently going through a serious and alarming situation. In the aftermath of August 5, 2019, the president said that India has started large-scale changes in Occupied Kashmir and at the same time has increased the violation of human rights.

Under the given circumstances, the President said that there was a dire need that the international community, especially the OIC should openly support the Kashmiri people and use its influence to stop the ongoing atrocities in Occupied Kashmir.

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