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LONDON (United Kingdom): Secretary Information All Jammu Kashmir Muslim Conference and ex-Advisor to the AJK government, Fida Hussain Kiyani Tuesday questioned India for branding Kashmiri freedom movement as terrorism, saying 'India itself was perpetrating terrorism'.

"India is the chief terrorist. It has kept Kashmiris from getting their inalienable right of self-determination by slapping 0.8 million army in the held Kashmir. Permanent and durable solution can be hammered out by taking into stock the aspirations of the people of Kashmir", said Fida Hussain Kiyani while addressing a reception, hosted in his honour by Sardar M Arshed Khan President AJK Muslim Conference in West London. Mr Mahmood Riaz President AJKMC (UK Chapter), Syed Hussain Shsheed Sarwar Advocate also addressed the event.

Speaking on the occasion Fida Kiani deplored that Kashmiris were denied their right to self-determination at the time of partition, saying that colonial rulers were also part of the conspiracy, as they backed Indian army to tresspass into the Himalayan State by force.

He said that the two South Asian nuclear rivals had fought three wars due to the unresolved issue of Kashmir, which he said continued to be the key irritant for perils to peace in South Asia.

The Information Secretary of AJKMC maintained that the big world powers must address Kashmir issue, warning that a perilous course in the region could eventually cause colossal human loss.

"International community should help resolve the issue. Peace-loving forces across the world should coarse India to stop employing repressive tactics in the valley and allow Kashmiris their fundamental right of self-determination," he asserted.

The ex-Advisor questioned the credibility of, what he phrased as: 'the so-called exponents and champions of global peace, who on the one hand talked of working for establishment of peace while on the other were evading their influence to liberate the suffering Kashmiris.

Commending the role of expatriate Pakistanis in highlighting the Kashmir cause, he urged them to play still more effective role in making the world become cognizant of Indian atrocities in the held Kashmir.

The President of Muslim Conference UK, Mehmood Riaz said it was beyond Indian might to stop Kashmiris from seeking their right of self-determination. India could not quell freedom struggle despite its hefty military might and high-handedness, he remarked.

He said that Muslim Conference was trying to forge a zestful understanding on Kashmir in its historical and realistic perspective in UK and Europe. It is high time that the world learnt that there was no relationship between Kashmir freedom movement and terrorism--in any mode n' manner, he observed.