AJK welcomes OIC special envoy on Kashmir.

Byline: Altaf Hammid Rao

MIRPUR -- Welcoming the appointment of Yousef Aldobeay as OIC's special envoy on Kashmir, Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Sardar Mohammad Masood Khan has described it an important development toward projecting the Kashmir issue at global level, it was officially said. Yousef Aldobeay of Saudi Arabia, who was appointed special envoy on Kashmir at the conclusion of 14th OIC conference held in Makkah Mukarramah, will put forward to the organisation his proposals and recommendations for a peaceful political and diplomatic solution to Kashmir conflict.

Speaking on return home Sunday after representing people of Jammu and Kashmir at the summit for the first time in the OIC's history, Sardar Masood Khan expressed gratitude to the host of the summit Khadim-e-Haramain Sharifain King Salman Bin Abdel Aziz and Crown-Prince Mohamed Bin Salman for taking special interest in Kashmir issue, and inviting elected leadership of Azad Kashmir to represent people of the state at the summit, AJK Presidential Secretariat said in an official statement released to the media Sunday evening.

Sardar Masood Khan said that his participation in the OIC summit had opened the doors for other international forum to project Kashmir cause, and highlight the struggle of Kashmiri people for the attainment of their right to self-determination in its real perspective, according to the statement.

The AJK president particularly expressed gratitude to the OIC Secretary General Dr Yousef Al-Othaimeen for forthrightly supporting the struggle of Kashmiri people for the right of self-determination and demanding immediate cessation of the worst human rights violations at the hands of Indian occupation forces in the held territory.

The AJK president asserted that his participation in the OIC summit is evident that the Kashmir liberation struggle is gaining vehement support on international level, and the international community has now realised that India is committing worst...