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Muzaffarabad, Sep 16 (TIWN) Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday vowed "to fight the case of oppressed people of Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir" at the upcoming session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), saying he will act as their ambassador before the world and will not disappoint them.
He made the comments while addressing a massive public gathering in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir''s (PoK) capital Muzaffarabad to "send the world a message regarding the military curfew imposed in Indian occupied Kashmir", Geo News reported. Calling the Kashmir situation a "humanitarian crisis", the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief said that even the EU and British Parliament took up the issue.
"Today Kashmir has been internationalized. The UN Security Council held a meeting on Kashmir issue for the first time in 50 years. The EU, for the first time, said that the Kashmir issue should be resolved as per UN resolutions. The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation also said that India should lift curfew in Kashmir. "More than 40 MPs in Britain raised the Kashmir issue. I am happy that US senators wrote a letter to President Donald Trump and urged him to intervene in the matter.
"The reason for me becoming an ambassador of Kashmiri people is that I am a Pakistani, a Muslim and a human... Kashmir issue today is a humanitarian problem.
"I am going to the UN General Assembly in New York and I will not disappoint the Kashmiri people," said Khan.
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