Defeat in Ladakh blow on India's hegemonic designs: AJK president.

Muzaffarabad -- 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.

In an interview with a Pakistani news magazine, the AJK president said that despite India's attempts to declare Kashmir its internal issue, Kashmir has emerged an international issue as it was in 1947.

He said that 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.

"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 that the just voice which has been rising for the last 73 years, is 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 Khan said that India had forcibly occupied a part of Jammu and Kashmir and had declared the occupied territory as a buffer zone between Pakistan and India, and on August 5, 2019, India once again occupied the Kashmiri territory and snatched even the symbolic internal autonomy.

The AJK president said that the people of Pakistan as well as Jammu and Kashmir are thankful to China that during recent talks with India, it had spurned the...

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