Mahathir Mohammad’s proposal on Kashmir should be considered −─ Farooq Rehmani

Islamabad 08 Dec 2011:The Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People's Freedom League, Muhammad Farooq Rehmani has hailed the statement of Mahathir Mohammad former Prime minister of Malaysia on Kashmir who during his Delhi visit called on the World body to intervene over Kashmir between Pakistan and India to resolve the oldest dispute of the United Nations.  He said that the views of the Malaysian leader   represented millions of the Kashmiris whose right to self-determination was still on the agenda of the United Nations in the form of over one dozen resolutions binding still on India and Pakistan.

Muhammad Farooq Rehmani said that the Kashmiris were facing slaughter and humiliation by army  and police at different levels but India being a big country was using  its resources to mislead the world on the inside story and plight of the people while the Kashmiris had neither freedom nor resources to counter India's lies and concocted fables on Kashmir. He asked if the people of Kashmir were living happily with India then why the state was being run by Delhi under most shameful and inhuman laws for the last 21 years.

Muhammad Farooq Rehmani rejected the back-burner theory and insouciance towards Kashmir saying it was a fallacious view; Kashmir being the most important question of human sacrifices and aspirations must never be left for unborn humankind. This was really a well-planned conspiracy to make the people slaves for good. He said that over 300 thousand people were massacred   in Jammu for demanding freedom in 1947, while over one thousand Kashmiris sacrificed their lives during the past 20 years.  How this living history could be ignored and forgotten, he asked.

Referring to Prime minister Gilani's statement on policy-review including Kashmir, he said  the time was ripe for Pakistan to review  the old policy  in accordance with the urges and aspirations of the people and the sacrifices  given by the people for the right of self- determination. He said the strength of a nation was linked with its own ideology, national interests and national pride and prestige not with alien interests and ideologies.