Khan urges UK silence today on Kashmir amounts to Indian crimes endorsement.

MIRPUR -- Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Masood Khan on Friday appealed to the British Parliament and Government to help save the Kashmiris in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir from the ongoing carnage, incarceration and torture.

'Silence today while Kashmir is being colonised and destroyed by the fascist regime of India would amount to endorsement of Indian crimes', he said while addressing a packed conference in the House of Commons full of Members of British Parliament and Lords from across the political spectrum and leading Diaspora community leaders in London on Friday, says an official message released to the media by AJK Presidential secretariat on Friday.

'India wants the world to look the other way but you must stare India down until it reverses its aggression in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir', Sardar Masood said.

'There is a time to be silent and there is a time to speak and today is the time to speak to save Kashmiris while Kashmir is being annihilated before your eyes. Compunction later would be too late, too little', he said.

Political activist Faheem Kiani, Chairman Tehreek-i-Kashmir, organised this highly successful Parliamentary event that was skillfully chaired by British MP Honourable Jess Phillips.

The conference, at which more than 40 MPs and peers were and some 20 took the floor, was especially attended by the Honourable Tom Watson, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, despite the British Parliament's singleminded and all-consuming focus on Brexit.

In his remarks, the Labour leader expressed strong and unequivocal solidarity with the people of Jammu and Kashmir, criticised the tendency to dehumanise the Kashmiris and Kashmir dispute and conveyed his deep concern over the ongoing punitive communications blockade in the occupied territory. The Kashmir issue was 'difficult and complex, with nearly intractable fault-lines', but this he said was no reason for the international community to ignore human rights and humanitarian crisis in Kashmir. A former Defence Minister, Mr. Watson said that he was worried by the presence of one million Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and the nuclear capability of India and Pakistan.

President Masood Khan thanked the Labour Party's Deputy Leader for and the Labour Party for passing an emergency motion in a recent party conference. 'You did not equivocate, you did not prevaricate, you did not hold your tongue because of political or economic calculations; you made a clear moral choice...