ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Qamar Zaman Kaira on Wednesday reiterated the government`s resolve to expose Indian aggression and cruelties in India-held Kashmir at all international fora.

Inaugurating the All Parties Consultative Conference on Kashmir issue titled `The Way Forward`, Mr Kaira said the entire Pakistani nation was standing by their Kashmiri brethren in their just struggle for getting liberation from Indian clutches.

He also paid rich tributes to the spirit of Kashmiri leadership for its continuous struggle to achieve the inalienable right to self-determination.

Azad Kashmir President Barrister Sultan Mehmood said India had judicially assassinated Maqbool Butt and Afzal Guru, adding that `India is trying to bring a Hindu chief minister by changing the proportion of the population`.

The AJK president said India was persecuting the minorities, adding that the situation was not normal in the occupied territory.

AJK Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas expressed the determination to stand by Kashmiri brothers.

He said the court`s verdict on Yasin Malik was a violation of international law, which spoke volumes about the ineffectiveness of the UN.

Former AJK prime minister Raja Farooq Haider said: `Indian oppression cannot dampen the spirit of independence of Kashmiris.

Another prime minister of Azad Kashmir Abdul Q ayyum Niazi underlined the need to work out a plan of action on the Kashmir issue.

Additional Foreign Secretary Mumtaz Zehra said the number of forces was being increased to suppress the voice of Kashmiris.

`Change in population is a violation of international law.

We rejected the report of the zoning commission in occupied Kashmir,` she said.

Other Kashmiri leaders including Sardar Atig Ahmad Khan, Chaudhry Abdul Majeed, Sardar Yaqub, former opposition leader Chaudhry Yasin, former president Raja Zulgarnain Khan, former speaker Shah Ghulam Qadir, Chaudhry Latif Akbar, Mirza Shafiq Jral, Sardar Hassan Ibrahim and Hurriyat leaders and political dignitaries were also present on the occasion.