LAHORE: Thanking China for supporting Pakistan stance on Kashmir, Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq said on Saturday his party would do everything to mobilise international community on the issue.

Presiding over a consultation meeting with the AJK chapter of Hurriyat leadership, he said China always backed Pakistan’s position on the disputed region and the nation was thankful for the gesture. The purpose of the meeting was to develop a future strategy to raise voice against the Indian aggression in held region particularly the situation emerged after the revocation of Article 370 by India.

He said JI would organise an international conference on Kashmir after Eid. Rallies and protest demonstrations would be held across the country to show solidarity with the people of Occupied Kashmir, he added.

Siraj said the JI was trying to mobilise Pakistani nation and the Muslim world on the issue. The JI would soon announce a plan that how to face and respond to India in the present crisis emerged after Aug 5, the day India scrapped Article 370 violating the UN resolutions and Simla Agreement.

He demanded that the government organise an international conference on Kashmir in Islamabad. The JI chief warned that the Indian government’s settlement plan in occupied region after scrapping Article 370 would be considered illegal and it would badly backfire. The people of Kashmir and Pakistan would never accept it under a conspiracy.

He said India had turned the entire occupied region into jail and deployed thousands of fresh troops to silence the voice of people of Kashmir. But, Siraj added, their ruthlessness and naked aggression against innocent people would never work as world had seen thousands of protesters across the valley on Friday and Saturday.

He congratulated the Kashmiri youth for standing firm against the Indian army and said 220 million Pakistanis were also standing with them in their struggle against India.

Published in Dawn, August 11th, 2019