Convincing defeat in Ladakh - a big blow to India's hegemonic designs: Masood.

MIRPUR -- While describing the defeat of Indian Army at the hands of Chinese troops in Ladakh as a serious blow on India's hegemonic designs, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan on Friday said China has blocked India's aggression in the region by giving a befitting response.

'After unleashing a reign of terror against the Kashmiri people, India had become so bold that it had invaded Galwan valley in Ladakh,' he added.

Despite India's attempts to declare held valley its internal issue, Kashmir had emerged an international issue as it was in 1947, Sardar Masood said in an interview to a news magazine, according to the AJK Presidential Secretariat.

'In spite of India's hectic attempts, neither the Kashmiri people could be demoralized nor had there been any change in Pakistan's stand on Kashmir' said the President.

'India has forgotten the lesson of the history that an international issue cannot be hidden under the false propaganda or buried under the dead bodies of the oppressed people,' he added.

The AJK president said the just voice, which had been rising for the last 73 years, was now echoing in the world parliaments. 'This is India's delusion that it can suppress the Kashmir liberation movement through massacre, ethnic cleansing and other tricks against the Kashmiri people,' he added.

Sardar Masood said India had forcibly occupied a part of Jammu and Kashmir, and had declared it as a buffer zone between Pakistan and India, and on August 5, 2019, it once again occupied the Kashmiri territory and snatched even the symbolic internal autonomy.

He said the people of Pakistan as well as Jammu and Kashmir were thankful to China that during recent talks with India, it had spurned the Indian action of declaring Ladakh as the...

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