President Alvi reaffirms Pakistan’s full support for Kashmiri people

ISLAMABAD: In their separate messages on the occasion of the Kashmir Solidarity Day, President Arif Alvi reiterated Pakistan’s unconditional support for Kashmiri brothers and sisters who have been subjected to barbaric locking and internet blockade for six months.

President Arif Alvi said that, by its unconstitutional and unilateral acts of 5 August last year, India explicitly violated the applicable United Nations Security Council resolutions.

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President Alvi said, “International human rights organizations and, as well as international media, should have access to determine the humanitarian situation in the occupied territory.”

He also asked the international community to play its role in maintaining protection for the Kashmiri people’s basic human and civil rights.

Earlier, Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that the fiction of India’s democracy was fully exposed as Pakistan observed Kashmir Solidarity Day to express the nation’s full support for the just struggle of the Kashmiri people for their right to self-determination under the UN resolutions.

Prime Minister Imran Khan in a message said, “Today, we observe the Kashmir Solidarity Day to reaffirm our unflinching support for our Kashmiri brothers and sisters who have been subjected to an inhuman lockdown and communications blockade for six months now.”

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Prime Minister also urged the international community to play its role in ensuring respect for the fundamental human rights and freedoms of the Kashmiri people and averting grave risks to global peace and security posed by India’s belligerent rhetoric and aggressive action.