PM, Saudi Crown Prince discuss Kashmir issue

Islamabad: Prime Minister Imran Khan in a telephonic conversation with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin

Salman bin Abdulaziz has discussed latest developments in Occupied Kashmir.

Both the leaders discussed the development of the situation in the region and efforts exerted towards it.

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Imran Khan stated that Pakistan will never accept the Indian efforts to annex the state of Kashmir.

Giving a policy statement in the joint session of the parliament in Islamabad, he said the revocation of articles 370 and 35A by Indian government will further intensify the freedom struggle of Kashmiris.

He said the Indian step of revocation of Kashmir’s special status contravenes all relevant UN resolutions,

India courts’ decisions and the public opinion.

Imran Khan expressed fear that India will now do ethnic cleansing of Kashmiris in order to change the

demography of the occupied territory.

Imran Khan said the current BJP government in India is a follower of RSS that believes in racist ideology

against all the minorities in that country. He said the father of nation Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah

had recognized this much earlier and supported the two-nation theory to give the Muslims of India a separate

homeland that is free from bigotry and racism.

The Prime Minister warned that if the two nuclear armed neighbors fail to resolve their issues, including

Kashmir, a Pulwama like trigger could drag them into a war which would not remain limited to conventional

conflict.

Imran Khan said after coming to power he sought to improve relations with all the neighbors, including India, as he had a vision to rid the country of poverty.

Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar on Tuesday said that Indian government again put the regional peace

and stability at risk by stripping occupied Kashmir of special status.

According to a statement issued by his office, CM Buzdars said that Indian prime minister Narendra Modi-led government turned occupied Kashmir into a burring hell owing to grave human rights violations and atrocities.

He said that India had failed to suppress the Kashmiris’ just and indigenous struggle for self-determination through brutalities in occupied Kashmir. The chief minister said that Indian troops broke all the records of

atrocities in the held valley.

He said that Pakistan would continue its diplomatic, moral and political support to Kashmiri people.