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India is a fascist state, says Javed Jabbar

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ISLAMABAD: The adviser to the Chief Executive on Information and Media, Javed Jabbar said, India is a fascist state. Unprecedented Indian acts of terrorism and oppression in the occupied Kashmir negates its claim of being the largest democratic state.

He was addressing an international seminar on, "Indian state terrorism in occupied Kashmir" here on Friday. The seminar was participated by 23 representatives of 12 countries.

He said India wished to control and dominate the region, and keep the Kashmiris under its yoke with the use of brute force.

He said anti-democratic attitude of India is clear from the fact that is the only so-called democracy which has designs to expand its territory by occupying neighbouring countries land.

India is indulged in practical expansionist activities for the last 52 years. It annexed Hyderabad, Goa and Junagadh by invading them and also landed troops in Kashmir to bring the Kashmiris under subjugation.

Javed Jabbar said the anti-democratic and fascist tendencies of India are clear from the fact that it denies the fundamental rights of the people of Kashmir. It, most arbitrarily, tried to integrate Kashmir into India and that it is trying to keep the Kashmiris under bondage with the largest ever concentration of military right in the occupied Kashmir.

India is the most graphic example of state terrorism as is evident from the oppressive attitude and naked terrorism against men, women and children in the occupied Kashmir.

He regretted that India instead of behaving in a democratic manner has been carrying on the propaganda of terrorism against the people of Pakistan. We, in Pakistan, do not consider Indian people as terrorists but just human beings. It is state terrorism to make Pakistanis synonymous with terrorism.

Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Barrister Sultan Mahmud Chaudhry, in his address to the seminar expressed his gratitude to the organisers of the seminar and was confident that the deliberations of the seminar would help implement the UN resolutions which were adopted 52 years ago and agreed to by the Indian government and its leaders.

He said it is most abominable that Indian atrocities and organised terrorism in the occupied Kashmir are continuing and the new chapter to these oppressive actions in the shape of naked state terrorism in 1989. During the last 10 years some 70,000 Kashmiris have been murdered by the Indian troops. Gangrape of Kashmiri women is taking place unabated and even children are not spared. But the valiant Kashmiris are struggling for the victory continuously.

Barrister Sultan Mahmud was confident that the time is not far away when Kashmiris will get their land liberated from Indian yoke. He declared on behalf of the Kashmiris, "We will continue our struggle till the victory."

The participants of the seminar from other countries including Indonesia and Sri Lanka criticised the State terrorism of India.

The Sri Lankan delegate, Hilmi Junaid, the Secretary General of the Sri Lanka Friendship Association of Islamic Nations, suggested ways and means to be adopted to end the Indian state terrorism in the occupied Kashmir.

Hilmi suggested that all the Kashmir freedom organisations should come under one umbrella with one intention of "free Kashmir and nothing else".

He further suggested all the NGOs, political organisations, intellectuals, scholars, senior citizens, specially Muslims, to take the task of mobilising resources in forming a consorted ideological and awareness programme of action directed and focusing at the Muslim population of the region to assert pressure on India.

He said since the British inherited the Kashmir issue a severe agitation should start from Britain while a consistent media and print campaign should be carried out vigorously.

He further stated that the Kashmir resolution is the oldest one on the UN records and that the UN has failed in its mission, he said all the UN members should be addressed in writing on the subject asking them to send a representative to the occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

Hilmi suggested that the OIC should initiate the programme of spearheading the Kashmir issue at the international level.