LAHORE, Feb 5: The Punjab organisation of the ruling PML condemned Indian atrocities in the occupied territory.

A message by Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi, read out at a meeting presided over by secretary-general Chaudhry Zaheeruddin at the Muslim League House on Monday, said President Musharraf had taken bold steps in highlighting the Kashmir issue the world over, and the states across the globe had now better understanding of the dispute in its true perspective.

He demanded that India should pull out troops from Kashmir and allow the people to decide their fate independently.

Chaudhry Zaheer said the recent visit by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq to Pakistan had drawn the goal of the settlement of the dispute nearer.

He said the Kashmiri leadership was now considering the four-point proposal of Musharraf as a means to achieve a just solution to the issue.

MNA Begum Mehnaz Rafi, adviser to Azad Kashmir government Syed Naseebullah Gardezi, Khwaja Riaz Mahmood and Mian Muhammad Munir also spoke.

Meanwhile, acting District Nazim Idrees said that the people of Pakistan would continue their moral and political support to the Kashmiris

Addressing a meeting held at the Jinnah Hall here, he said the Kashmiris had been given the right of self-determination under the UN Resolutions and could not be deprived of it by force. He said that President General Pervez Musharraf was making efforts for the resolution of issue in the light of the UN resolutions.

Kashmiri leader Ashraf Saraf said that people of Kashmir would not hesitate in spilling the last drop of their blood in their struggle for freedom. He said that he had spent 40 years in jail for freedom struggle and was determined to continue it. —reporter