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Sultan urges EU to arbitrate Kashmir dispute Friday January 26, 2007 (1320 PST) BRUSSELS, Jan 26 (Online): Former Prime Minister AJK and President People's Muslim League (PML) has expressed the apprehension that a war could break out between the two nuclear capable states and pose a threat to the lives of one billion human population if the international community did not play vibrant for the long standing Kashmir dispute He expressed these views while talking to the members of Kashmir committee in European Parliament here. He feared that a nuclear war could erupt if the international community failed to help provide the right of self-determination to the 10.5 million Kashmiris living in 84,000 square miles land of Jammu and Kashmir. "The just solution of Kashmir is vital for elimination of terrorism and thwarting nuclear war," he added. Meanwhile, in a statement on the eve of the Indian Republic Day, Barrister Sultan Mahmood said that the Kashmiris had been observing the Day as Black Day because India had occupied Kashmir under the cover of secularism and democracy. He said India was the biggest terrorist and criminal minded fundamentalist country. He said it was obligatory for the European Union to arbitrate the Kashmir issue between India and Pakistan. He said we are abiding by the UN resolutions. He urged India to call back its troops from the Held Valley and open the Line of Control so that the Kashmiris could move freely. Ends/Online RT/TR/SK APHC holds Black Day Rally before UNMOIGIP Rawalpindi Rawalpindi Jan 26 (Online): All parties Hurriyat Conference AJK / Pak Chapter Friday staged a big protest sit-in and demonstration to mark the Indian Republic Day as a Black Day here, before the UNMOGIP office. All the members of the APHC attended the black day rally, and it was joined other Kashmiri organizations and political and human rights activists. The APHC activists were holding banners and placards raised high pitched slogans of freedom, calling upon all freedom loving states and associations to support the just cause of Kashmiris. Different speakers also addressed the rally . Amidst a big march by APHC activists, Convener APHC Azad Kashmir Chapter Muhammad Farooq Rehmani presented a memorandum to the UNMOGIP Commander which was addressed to Ban Ki-moon, in which he spelled out reasons for observing the black day by Kashmiris. The Memorandum besides congratulating Mr. Ban Ki-moon on his new assignment as the Secretary General of the World body also condemned the obduracy of India towards a peaceful settlement of Kashmir through a tripartite dialogue between India, Pakistan and the true representatives of Kashmir. The memorandum highlighted illegal military occupation of Kashmir by India, non-fulfillment of the promise of a plebiscite in Kashmir, increasing of the number of troops in Kashmir, extending central laws to Kashmir, imposing armed forces special powers act, martyring over one hundred thousand innocent Kashmiris in the last 15 years and perpetuating other serious human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir . The memorandum said that now since there were hundreds of innumerable scars on the face of the Indian Republic, there was no hope of an honorable settlement of Kashmir dispute with the people of Kashmir . Therefore the APHC stressed on the UN Chief Mr. Ban Ki-moon to engage actively the world body itself inline with the UN manifesto and relevant resolutions to extinguish the spark of Kashmir conflict in the conflicting zone, and take keen interest in resolving the dispute which was a threat to a sea of humanity in South Asia . Muhammad Farooq Rehmani said that CBMs and dialogue between India and Pakistan or Delhi and some Kashmiri politicians since 2004 had yielded nothing positive, despite best possible and most sincere efforts by Pakistan. The Indian aggression and tyranny in Jammu and Kashmir must be ended, he concluded . +++ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. 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