India should give Kashmiris right to self-determination: Al-Ghamdi

JEDDAH: The Pakistan Repatriation Council (PRC) held a symposium entitled “Kashmir and the obligation of the Muslim world” in solidarity with Kashmiris fighting for self-determination.
Saudi columnist and former diplomat Ali Al-Ghamdi presided over the event.
Other guests and speakers included Mohammed Jamil Rathore, secretary-general of the Pakistan Journalists Forum; Tayyab Moosani, secretary-general of the Pakistan Memon Association; Mohammad Riaz Ghumman of the Kashmir Committee; Shamsuddin Altaf of the Pakistan Peoples Community; and scholars and community leaders Mohammad Ashfaq Badayouni, Tariq Mahmood and Mohammad Amanatullah.
Al-Ghamdi thanked the PRC for organizing the symposium on the important Kashmir issue.
He said it is an old and unresolved issue like Palestine, adding that India should give Kashmiris the right to self-determination as stipulated by the UN, which is essential for peace in the Indian subcontinent.
He urged the secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to take the lead in solving issues facing the Muslim world, and to press the UN and global powers to play their role in solving conflicts in Kashmir, Palestine, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Myanmar and elsewhere.
PRC Convener Syed Ehsanul Haque said: “Quaid-e-Azam declared Kashmir as the life line for Pakistan so we must have to take it seriously and act.”
Journalist Syed Musarrat Khalil conducted the symposium and also presented a write-up on Kashmir.
Poet Zamurrad Khan Saifi and Sher Afzal presented poems in honor of the struggle of the Kashmiris.