TEXAS: A member of the Texas House of Representatives, Terry Meza, has said that the United States believes in the supremacy of human rights and advocates for peace, peaceful coexistence, and democracy across the world.
Addressing the Kashmir conference arranged by Friends of Kashmir International (FoKI) in Texas on Thursday, she said that the US stood with the oppressed against the oppressor, and soon a resolution would be presented in the Texas House to express solidarity with the Kashmiris.
While addressing the conference, Chief Guest Hurriyat leader and Vice Chairman of FoKI, Abdul Hameed Lone, said that Kashmiris were not only struggling for their inalienable right to self-determination but also for the completion of Pakistan.
He said that Kashmiris had resisted Indian aggression by making supreme sacrifices for the past seventy-six years.
Presiding over the Kashmir Conference, social activist Abdul Hafeez Khan stressed that it was high time for the US to play its role in mediating the Kashmir issue.
Hearts of Pakistani Diaspora Beat with Oppressed Kashmiris
He said that the hearts of Pakistanis living in the US beat with their oppressed Kashmiri brothers and sisters and that they desired freedom from the clutches of the occupying Indian troops.
Ghazala Habib, the chairperson of Friends of Kashmir International and host of the conference, said that the Kashmiri diaspora would play every possible role in exposing Indian atrocities globally.
She said that the people of Jammu and Kashmir seek their basic and globally recognized right to self-determination as per the resolutions of the United Nations (UN) and the entire world should support them in this noble cause.
Barkat Basira, the leader of the Pakistan Society of North Texas, thanked the attendees for their interest in the Kashmir issue and said that all Pakistanis would continue to support their Kashmiri brothers and sisters morally and diplomatically.
