Pakistan will standing by Kashmirs until they get freedom: Shah Mehmood Qureshi

Foreign Minister was addressing the concluding ceremony of three-day Urs of Sufi saint Hazrat Bahauddin

Multan: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi was addressing the concluding ceremony of three-day Urs of Sufi saint Hazrat Bahauddin Zakariya in Multan.

He says Pakistan will go to any extent to help the oppressed people of occupied Kashmir to secure their due right to self-determination.

The Minister said Pakistanis will be standing by their Kashmiri until they get freedom from the Indian occupation.

He said India must immediately lift curfew in occupied Kashmir and provide the Kashmiris their basic rights. There is complete communications blackout and acute shortage of medicines.

People have been denied the right to go to mosques and educational institutions.

Shah Mahmood Qureshi said Kashmir issue is being debated at top world fora, including the United Nations and the Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir are being exposed.

The Minister said India denied access to US Senator Chris Van Hollen to visit occupied Kashmir and observe the situation there, whereas we facilitated a delegation of US senators to visit Azad Kashmir freely.

Shah Mahmood Qureshi said the soil of Afghanistan needs peace now. We are extending our cooperation to bring peace and stability to the region.

He said Prime Minister Imran Khan recently inaugurated 24/7 trade facility between Pakistan and Afghanistan through Torkham border.