DAYS OF SORROW
Pakistan`s COMSATS Institute hosts seminar on Khojaly genocide
Baku, February 28 (AZERTAC). The Azerbaijan-Pakistan Foundation has organized a seminar on the Khojaly genocide at the COMSATS Institute in the city of Lahore, the capital of the province of Punjab.
The event was attended by teachers and students of the COMSATS Institute and other higher educational institutions of Punjab.
A message of Azerbaijani ambassador to Pakistan Dashgin Shikarov on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the Khojaly genocide was read out to the event participants. The ambassador highly appreciated in the message the Pakistani government`s position on the conflict and the adoption by the country`s Senate of a resolution recognizing the Khojaly genocide.
President of the Azerbaijan-Pakistan Foundation Chaudhry Naman Zafar briefed the event participants on the history of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. He said as a result of Armenia`s aggressive policy against Azerbaijan 20 percent of territories of Azerbaijan was occupied and more than one million people were driven from their homes. He described the genocide committed by Armenian armed forces in Khojaly in 1992 as the most tragic page of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Zafar also drew the audience`s attention to the fact that official Yerevan does not honor resolutions on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict adopted by international organizations.
Speaking at the event, professor Abdus Sattar said though some international organizations and parliaments of several countries recognized the Khojaly genocide, the world community still remains indifferent and do not give proper legal assessment to this tragedy. Professor of COMSATS Fuad Javid called the Khojaly events barbaric acts. He said those who committed the Khojaly genocide must be punished.