Kashmir issue to be raised before world on Aug 5: Imran.

Byline: Tariq Naqash

MUZAFFARABAD -- Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday vowed that Pakistan would again vigorously raise Kashmir issue before the world on August 5 to press for its just settlement.

On August 5 last year, India had revoked special status of occupied Kashmir and placed it under a lockdown, with severed internet and other civic services, and intensified repression in a failed attempt to quell the quest of Kashmiris for freedom.

'There will be a movement across the globe on August 5 and afterwards to remind the world community of what's happening in Indian occupied Kashmir,' PM Khan said at a ceremony in the capital of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).

'We will make full preparations before August 5 with the involvement of Pakistanis and Kashmiris living anywhere across the globe,' he said.

The ceremony was held at the AJK PM House to launch the award of cash grant to around 138,000 families living along the restive Line of Control (LoC) and affected by unrelenting ceasefire violations by Indian army.

Award of cash grant to 138,000 families living along LoC begins

The prime minister, who dedicated most of his speech to Kashmir issue, said Narendra Modi-led RSS government had broken previous records of atrocities on freedom seeking Kashmiris, by blinding hundreds of people with pellet guns, burying countless people in mass graves after killing them in [fake] encounters and lodging thousands, mostly youngsters, in prisons.

'The oppressor is always a coward which unleashes terror on helpless and defenceless people,' he said of India.

The PM said India's 800,000 plus armed personnel, unleashed on eight million Kashmiris, were killing youngsters in an organised manner.

This, he said, was in line with Mr Modi's approach in Gujarat where he had let the RSS goons loose to carry on the pogrom against Muslims.

'It should have been known by then that Mr Modi is not a man with normal thinking but a psychopath whose RSS considers the Nazi party as its role model and itself as its replacement.'

The prime minister also drew parallels between the treatment of Jews and gypsies by the Nazis and that of Indian Muslims and Kashmiri people by BJP-RSS regime on the issue of citizenship.

'The way the Nazis committed genocide, the BJP-RSS are also heading to it,' he cautioned.

Recalling his earlier announcement about being the ambassador of the Kashmiris as well as his meetings with world leaders to apprise them of Indian government's fanatic approach...