ISLAMABAD, August 25: Chairman Senate Mir Muhammad Sadiq Sanjrani has cancelled his scheduled visit to the United Arab Emirates a day after the country gave Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi highest civilian award.
Sadiq Sanjrani was scheduled to visit UAE from Sunday to August 28, 2019, along with a parliamentary delegation but it was called off to express solidarity with people of Kashmir and protest the Gulf state’s decision to give Modi highest civilian award.
According to a press release issued, the Chairman Senate said that Pakistan fully supported the freedom movement of Kashmiris. He said the Modi government has carried out unprecedented atrocities against Kashmiris and imposed a curfew in the occupied territory.
Any visit in such scenario would harm the sentiments of Pakistanis and Kashmiri brethren. The Chairman has called off his and the parliamentary delegation’s visit to the UAE, it added.
The visit was aimed at enhancing the existing bilateral relations between the two brotherly countries and making the UAE authorities aware of the latest situation in Indian held Kashmir due to change in the status of the disputed territory by the Indian Government in violation of the United Nations Security Council resolutions.-Sabah
