ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister’s Special Assistant on Information and Broadcasting Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan on Sunday has pressed upon the United Nations and international community to fulfil their promise of granting right to self-determination to the Kashmiris. In a series of tweets on Right to Self-determination Day of people of Jammu and Kashmir, the special assistant said 71 years have been passed when UN Security Council passed a resolution giving oppressed Kashmiris their right to self-determination. She said the persistence, courage and sacrifice with which the Kashmiris are sticking toRead More

Today, Kashmiris around the world are observing the 71st anniversary of the United Nations’ commitment that the Jammu and Kashmir dispute would be decided through the democratic method of a free and impartial plebiscite under the UN auspices. Through this resolution, the United Nations affirmed its support for the realization of the inalienable right to self-determination of Kashmiris – a right from which all other fundamental freedoms and basic human rights flow. Regrettably, this right has not yet been realized because of unabated repression and state terrorism by India inRead More

ISLAMABAD  – Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Sunday has said that India’s illegal and unilateral actions of 5 August last year are aimed at altering the disputed status of occupied Kashmir and bringing about demographic change to undermine the right to self-determination of Kashmiris have been widely rejected. In a message on Right to Self-Determination Day being observed today (Sunday), the minister said that India’s unrestrained oppression has reached unprecedented levels with the inhuman lockdown now in place for over 150 days. He said each additional second on theRead More