Kashmir will be part of Pakistan: Bilawal

QUETTA, Oct 19 (agencies): Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari vowed to make Kashmir a part of Pakistan, Geo News reported.
Bilawal, son of former Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari and assassinated ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto, made the claim at a public meeting in the port city of Karachi, attended by thousands of supporters from across the country at Bagh-e-Jinnah, next to the mausoleum of Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
"The struggle from Quaid-e-Azam to Quaid-e-Awam and from Shaheed Benazir to this day has been for only one cause; to give the people their rights," he said.
Bilawal said when he spoke of Kashmir, the Indian media began its propaganda against him. "It was so because they are aware that Bhuttoism is recognised by the whole world."
"We will not let the Pakistan-India dialogue be held hostage by the issue of Kashmir," he said.
On the assassination of his mother, Bilawal said the first woman ruler of an Islamic country was made the target of a worst form of brutality.
"They think they can bring us down with use of force, but they must not forget that a Bhutto is never afraid of oppressors and their brutal designs."
On Sep 20, Bhutto, addressing party workers in Multan region, had said he would get back the whole of Kashmir from India. "I will take back Kashmir, all of it, and I will not leave behind a single inch of it because, like the other provinces, it belongs to Pakistan."
Meanwhile: Suspected separatist insurgents in southwest Pakistan killed nine labourers Sunday in what appeared to be an ethnically motivated attack, officials said.
The gunmen stormed a poultry farm in the early hours of Sunday in the town of Hub, some 640 kilometres (400 miles) southwest of Baluchistan province's capital city Quetta.
They kidnapped 11 labourers, senior local administration official Fawad Soomro said, and questioned them over their ethnicities.
"They blindfolded the nine workers belonging to Punjab province and shot them while setting the two Baluch workers free," he said.
He added that the freed Baluch workers made their way to a local police station to report the crime.
Akbar Harifal, another senior district administration official, confirmed the incident. "Hub is a developing industrial town where most of the workforce comes from Karachi and from cities in Punjab province," he said.
Resource-rich but poor Baluchistan is in the midst of its fifth uprising against Pakistani rule.
Its roughly seven million inhabitants have long complained they do not receive a fair share of its gas and mineral wealth.
Separatists also chafe at the outsize influence of Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province, and the influx of migrant workers from other parts of the country.
Last week the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said that more than 300,000 people including religious and ethnic minorities had left Baluchistan over the past 10 years due to rising unrest.