Exiled Kashmiri businessman urges world to stop India from anti-Kashmiri designs in IIOJK.

MIRPUR [AJK] -- :Exiled Kashmiri businessman Dr Mubeen Shah has said that if there was a delay in stopping India in its increased anti-Kashmiri designs in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), there would be Kashmir but without Kashmiris.

In an exclusive interview with reporter on Tuesday from Istanbul, he warned that time was running out.

Dr Mubeen, who is also the former president of Jammu Kashmir Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said, "Jammu and Kashmir people are looking for early settlement of Kashmir issue through the United Nations besides the international criminal court and the international court of Justice."

While referring to a joint communique, which was issued by the OIC Contact Group in Jammu and Kashmir, in Islamabad on March 22 last year, he said the communique, among other things, had contained the action plan, which he would like to point out in their bilateral engagements with India. The forum raised the Kashmir dispute to advance a peaceful resolution in accordance with UNSC resolutions committing to the grant of Kashmiris birth right of self-determination, he added.

Dr Shah called upon the OIC to ensure the implementation of its other decisions taken in the above moot including conducting visits at the level of permanent representatives to asses the first-hand information about the prevailing situation in the Jammu and Kashmir state on both sides of the Line of Control, he urged.

To a question, Dr Shah also fully endorsed the demand to constitute a panel of international eminent personalities with a view to exploring legal, political, and diplomatic avenues for a peaceful settlement of the Kashmir dispute; monitoring, raising awareness, advocating, and highlighting the dispute in its various dimensions in line with their respective mandates.

The exiled IIOJK entrepreneur said, "We desire until and unless we go to the jugular and that is in the present world order the action of sanctions which is what America and Europe are putting on Russia without any unanimous resolution of the UN while as in our case, there is a clear cut resolution on Kashmir, not being implemented for the last 75 years", he added.

Dr Shah lambasted the world bigwigs for their alleged double standard vis-a-vis treating the unresolved international disputes and said, "Our freedom fighters are called terrorists while people are encouraged to go to Ukraine to fight Russia and...

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