LONDON: Foreign Minister of Pakistan Shah Mahmood Qureshi in a special message on Kashmir Solidarity Day reiterated Pakistan’s resolve to stand in solidarity with Kashmiris battling ‘Indian oppression and brutality in Kashmir’, Dawn reported.
Pakistan is observing Kashmir Solidarity Day in a befitting manner with a pledge to continue extending all possible support to the people of Kashmir, who have been struggling for more than seven decades to get their legitimate right to self-determination.
“Today is February 5, and the entire Pakistani nation is standing in solidarity with Kashmiris,” Qureshi said from London ─ where he is scheduled at attend a conference on Kashmir ─ in a video message on Tuesday.
“I would have been very happy if the Hurriyat leaders were free, if their passports had not been confiscated, if they had been given the opportunity to express themselves,” Qureshi said. “Today people would not be chanting slogans of freedom in the shadow of bayonets.”
“They will get their rights in the end,” the foreign minister asserted. “As the resolve, courage and determination [to struggle for freedom] has been passed onto the younger generation, it has become clear that this movement will reach its conclusive end.”
The foreign minister said that every child, every institution, every intellect in Pakistan is with the Kashmiris and lauds their sacrifices.