Washington: Kashmiri leader Ghulam Nabi Fai, charged with illegally lobbying for Pakistan to influence United States policy on Kashmir, has said that people of Kashmir have no reason to fear from America.
“I say with fullest possible consciousness that the people of Kashmir have no reason to fear that the world powers in general, and the United States in particular, will let them down,” Fai said in a written statement.
Sixty-two-year-old Fai’s attorney Khurram Wahid distributed copies of the written statement of the Kashmiri leader after he was ordered to be released from prison and instead put under house arrest under electronic surveillance by a US district court judge.
“It has been my lifelong commitment to the people of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, irrespective of their religious background and cultural affiliations to help achieve the right of self-determination to decide their future. God willing I will continue to do that in days, weeks, months and years to come,” Fai said.
In the statement, Fai lauded the traditional support of the United States to the basic principles of fundamental freedoms and democratic process and President Barack Obama’s vision about the region of South Asia.
Wahid said that the statement was prepared after the court’s order of his house arrest.
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