ISLAMABAD - Pakistan People’s Party yesterday announced to stand by the oppressed Kashmiris till the last drop of blood. 

PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that the dream of Pakistan as envisioned by Pakistan’s founders was incomplete without Kashmir and pledged that his Party, with the unflinching support of the people won’t rest until achieving the rights of self-determination for Kashmiris.

In his comments on the eve of Kashmir Solidarity Day declared an official public holiday by then Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 1990, the PPP Chairman said that the Kashmiri brethren were suffering from atrocities at the hands of Indian occupying forces for seven decades. 

“Thousands of people have been killed, maimed and imprisoned in the held Kashmir. The valley has become an open jail with no communication with the outside world,” he added.

Bilawal further pointed out that Butcher of Gujarat Modi was conspiring to change the demography of the held valley by churning out domiciles and citizenship rights to millions of Indians in a bid to turn the Kashmiri people into a minority in their own land.

PPP Chairman said that Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had vowed to fight for Kashmir for thousands of years and today we too reiterate our commitment to the cause of Kashmiris. “Kashmir is in fact an unfinished agenda of the partition of the sub-continent,” he added.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that the people of Pakistan stood behind Kashmiri brothers and sisters adding that PPP would continue to extend political, diplomatic, and moral support at every forum and urged the international community to rein in Butcher of Gujarat and his occupying Indian forces and stop grave violations of human rights in the held valley.

Former Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf told The Nation that the PPP always kept the Kashmir issue as the top priority. He said the world must wake up and see what was happening in the occupied territory. “Kashmiris are being killed in the 21st century. This even didn’t happen centuries ago. The world must not remain silent on the Indian aggression,” he said.

The PPP leader said the party had been holding special meetings on Kashmir for the last few weeks as the Kashmir Solidarity Day approached.

“The PPP stands right behind the Kashmiris and will fight till the last drop of blood to liberate out jugular vein,” he contended.

Ashraf said the PPP-led governments in the past had always highlighted the Kashmir issue at all world forums.