AJK President urges diaspora community to redouble efforts to highlight plight of Kashmiris.

MIRPUR (AJK) -- Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry has urged the Kashmiri diaspora community to redouble their efforts to highlight the plight of Kashmiris who have been bearing the brunt of Indian state terrorism in the occupied Kashmir.

Addressing a public meeting, in Britain's city of Luton on Sunday, as a special guest, the president while referring to the simmering situation in the Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, said that there was a dire need that the Kashmiris and Pakistanis living abroad should get united to raise the issue of Kashmir aggressively to stop the ongoing atrocities in the disputed territory.

"Our brothers in Occupied Jammu Kashmir are currently going through terrible times," he said, adding that it was a high time that the diaspora community should use its social and political influence in galvanizing international support in favour of Kashmiris who have been engaged in a just struggle to achieve their cherished goal of freedom from India," he said.

The meeting which was presided over by the President Kashmir Peace Forum International UK South Zone, Chaudhry Hakmad, was attended by members of...

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