AJK President describes US visit fruitful.

MIRPUR [AJK] -- Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry while terming his recent visit to the USA as highly productive has said that it was a significant tour that would certainly have a far-reaching impact on Kashmir's freedom movement.

Talking to media in the State metropolis on Wednesday, the AJK president while citing his series of important meetings with world leaders and top officials of the UN, OIC and the US state department said that during these high-profile meetings he had been able to present Kashmiris' point of view before the world effectively.

He said that the world was gradually realizing the importance of the resolution of Kashmir issue.Recalling his meeting with the US Deputy Secretary of State Elizabeth Horst and other top US officials at the State Department, Barrister Chaudhary said that he gave them a detailed briefing on the Kashmir issue and the fast deteriorating political and human rights situation in the Indian Occupied territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

'I also presented the Kashmiris' case at the OIC Contact Group meeting, OIC Foreign Ministers' Conference and other forums and stressed the need for early solution of the Kashmir issue and bringing an immediate end to the ongoing violation of human rights in Occupied Kashmir.

'The international community needs to understand the fact that the unresolved dispute Kashmir issue is a major source of tension between India and Pakistan', he said. 'The world must not leave them (India and Pakistan on their own since both the countries are nuclear powers', Barrister said adding that any misunderstanding or miscalculation between...