MUZAFFARABAD, Jan 1: The AJK Legislative Assembly on Tuesday warned the world community of the “jingoism of Indian leaders” and called for the implementation of the UN resolutions to settle the Kashmir dispute.

Through a resolution, unanimously adopted at a special session, the house stressed the need for resolving the conflict through negotiations.

It demanded that the Kashmiris be provided with an opportunity to exercise their right to self-determination, which had been pledged to them in the United Nations resolutions more than five decades ago.

It condemned the massive troop-build up by India along the Line of Control (LoC) and working and international boundaries and unprovoked shelling, and made it clear that if a war was imposed by India, the people of Pakistan and the AJK would jointly fight the aggression.

The legislative assembly expressed complete solidarity with the armed forces and the people of Pakistan and assured them that the Kashmiris would not hesitate from offering any sacrifice for the stability and security of the country.

The AJK legislator drew the attention of the world towards the fact that the Kashmiris had launched the ongoing struggle after failing to get their issue resolved through peaceful means.

“It was India’s perpetual denial to implement the UN resolutions that forced the Kashmiris to take up arms. And this is not terrorism by any means”, the resolution said and called upon the world community to distinguish between terrorism and a freedom movement and play its role in ridding the Kashmiris of India’s terrorism.

The Indian government, it added, was itself masterminding and executing terrorism to get the Kashmiri Mujahideen branded as terrorists.

Prime Minister Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan said peace and justice-loving nations must intervene to get the Kashmir issue settled in accordance with the UN resolutions.

The people and the government of Azad Kashmir were fully alive to their responsibilities and would frustrate the aggressive designs of the enemy, he said. “Let me also tell the war-frenzy Indian leaders that they should not remain under any misconception. We have tens of thousands of retired soldiers in Azad Kashmir who are always prepared to take part in Jihad.”

The prime minister announced that his government would send delegations to foreign countries to apprise them of what he called the naked aggression of Indian troops against the struggling people in the occupied Kashmir and unarmed civilian population residing along the LoC in the AJK.