Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar condemned the latest Indian Supreme Court ruling, calling it a politically motivated tool to entrench Indian unlawful occupation, and reaffirmed Pakistan’s moral, political, and diplomatic support for the people of Kashmir on Thursday. In his speech to the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly (AJK LA) during a special session, the prime minister demanded that India stop solidifying its occupation, withdraw its illegal unilateral acts from August 5, 2019, and refrain from altering the disputed territory’s demographics. Speaker Chaudhry Latif Akbar of the Assembly of AJK led the meeting, which was also attended by Assembly members and Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwarul Haq of AJK.
PM Kakar further emphasised that India should remove emergency rules, remove a significant military presence, stop violating human rights in Indian-Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), and grant unrestricted access to international media and UN agencies. The prime minister, who addressed the AJK Legislative Assembly as the first caretaker prime minister ever, honoured the martyrs of the Kashmir movement as well as those who had lost loved ones as a result of Indian ceasefire breaches and those who lived near the Line of Control. He urged the people of Kashmir to receive their just rights and declared that Pakistan would support them in their fight. “The jugular vein of Pakistan is Kashmir. Without Kashmir, Pakistan cannot truly be called such. There is a special kinship between the people of Pakistan and Kashmir.