During his student life, Abdul Rasheed took active part in politics and played his important role as President of Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba Azad Jammu Kashmir.
Addressing an All Parties Conference (APC) at the National Press Club on Wednesday, Kashmiri leaders including former prime ministers Sardar Attique Ahmad Khan and Sultan Mahmood, Chaudhry Lateef Akbar, Abdul Rasheed Turabi and others said that any move to change the constitutional status of the region would tantamount to divide the state of Kashmir.
They through the resolution proposed a joint administrative set up for AJK and GB in which the president, prime minister, High Court and Kashmir Council will be the same for these two regions.
In All Parties Kashmir Conference held in Mirpur, Abdul Rasheed Turabi along with PM AJK Raja Farooq Haider, Leader of the Opposition in AJK Legislative Assembly Chaudhry Muhammad Yasin, Ex-PM of AJK Chaudhry Abdul Majeed, All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference President Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan, Justice (retd) Abdul Majeed Malik, PTI leader Khawaja Farooq Ahmed, Hurriyat leaders Ghulam Muhammad Saffi, Mir Tahir Masood, ex-president of AJK Sardar Muhammad Anwar said that the Kashmiri freedom movement would not be suppressed by Indian brutalities anymore.
People of Jammu and Kashmir would continue their struggle for right to self-determination in accordance with United Nations resolutions till it is achieved.
They said:“We reject ludicrous Indian claims of carrying out surgical strikes across the LoC, as blatantly false and brazen attempts at diverting international attention away from its atrocities in IoK”.
[10] In a media talk in Sialkot Press Club, he asked the Pakistan government to take up the Kashmir issue with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) effectively.
Turabi also urged the world to use its complete influence to globally pressurise India for the early peaceful solution to burning Kashmir dispute as per the aspirations of the people of the held valley.