PR No. 254 Islamabad: 27th October 2017

Pakistan Ambassador Zahid Nasrullah Khan, addressing a gathering of more than 100 Afghans including Members of Parliament, media, ex-governors and civil society as well as members of Pakistani community informed them that since the Indian representative in his letter to the UNSC of June 1, 1948 took the matter of Jammu and Kashmir in which India committed that the people of Kashmir would be free to decide their future through a plebiscite, the UNSC adopted a number of Resolutions appointing several UN Representatives on Kashmir dispute, Plebiscite Administrator, and repeatedly calling for an impartial plebiscite to decide the future of Kashmir, says a press release received from Kabul here today.

            The messages of the President and Prime Minister were readout by Deputy Head of Mission, Mr. Shahbaz Hussain, and was also distributed to all the attendees. A movie on the Kashmir Black Day explaining in derailing the on-going gross human rights violations by the Indian Security Forces in the Indian Occupied Kashmir was also shown to sensitize them to the oppression of the Kashmiri people. Pakistan Ambassador gave a detailed presentation informed the audience that Pakistan would continue to render, political, diplomatic and moral support to their Kashmiri brethren till they achieve their rights to self-determination as promised to them by the UNSC 70 years ago.

            Earlier in the afternoon, around seventy-five Afghan citizens from different walks of life held a demonstration carrying placards condemning Indian brutalities in Indian Occupied Kashmir. 

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