Intl community, UN must play role to protect Kashmiris from Indian repression : Asad Qaiser.

ISLAMABAD -- Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser has urged the international community, especially United Nations (UN), to play its role in protecting the innocent Kashmiris from Indian barbarities. Addressing a gathering outside the Parliament House in connection with the Kashmir Day, observed on Friday, he demanded the UN to ensure implementation on its own resolutions about Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) and protect rights of the people. He said that all parliaments in world and Inter-Parliamentary Union have been written letters to highlight the Kashmir issue and inform them about violation of basic rights to people there. He said that world parliaments have been also asked to send their parliamentary delegations to IOK to see the blatant human rights violations there. Asad Qaiser said Pakistan nation was united on the issue of Kashmir and will go to any extent in support of oppressed Kashmiri people in IOK.

The National Assembly, Senate, the government and the opposition will become the voice of Kashmiri people and plead their case at different levels, he added. Asad Qaiser also appreciated Prime Minister Imran Khan's speech in the UN General Assembly...

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