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MUZAFFARABAD:
Sardar Masood Khan, the president Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), has stated that after grudgingly accepting the independence of Pakistan, India adopted a secular doctrine, an insincere try to cover prevalent Hindu nationalism below the guise of secularism.
He made these remarks whereas addressing two separate web-conferences organised by the Institute of Policy Studies on the subject of “India: Past, Present & Future: Perceptions of the Muslim World”; and by the Pakistan High Commission UK on the subject “Seeking Justice for Kashmiri Victims of Sexual Violence and Physical Torture, and Widows”.
Speaking on the IPS session – which was attended by main worldwide specialists from the United States, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Nigeria – the president stated Hindu fascists romanticise an imaginary state of “Akhand Baharat” that they declare to have existed earlier than the arrival of Muslim rulers within the sub-continent. This notion, he stated, is just not solely unsubstantiated by historical past, additionally it is counterintuitive.
Referring to the fake secularism adopted by India, the AJK president stated that over the a long time, this glue of secularism had has come off and the true face of India’s political masters has been uncovered. “Not lengthy after independence, on 27 October 1947, India started engaged on its imperialistic agenda, and invaded the Jammu and Kashmir State. Driven by its Hindu-extremist coverage, India has carried on with this agenda over time,” he stated.
Masood Khan stated that lawmakers and the management of BJP, the RSS and their associates have publicly declared that they’d get rid of Muslims from inside India. This, he stated, has caught the eye of Hindu zealots from throughout India which has consequently impacted the bigger political panorama of the neighbouring nation.
This BJP-RSS nexus has waged three wars within the area; one towards its minorities inside its personal borders, the second towards Kashmiris within the occupied territory of Kashmir and the third one towards all its neighbouring international locations. “Considering Pakistan as enemy primary, they’ve threatened to wipe off Pakistan from the face of the earth by means of nuclear weapons,” he knowledgeable.
The AJK president stated that India’s ambition of changing into a colonial and imperial energy within the area has led it to utilizing the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh for sabotaging the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It has additionally fashioned a four-member alliance QUAD – comprising of India, USA, Japan and Australia – to oppose the BRI and, particularly, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
“India is the most important barrier for progress within the area. SAARC has been struggling for many years and that too as a result of India has been standing in the way in which of financial integration because it desires to ascertain its hegemony in South Asia,” stated the president.
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Speaking concerning the scenario in IOJ&Okay, he stated that India is practising the coverage of lebensraum by reoccupying the State of Jammu and Kashmir, bifurcating it and now bringing it below the direct rule of Delhi. He in contrast the brand new domicile guidelines launched within the occupied valley, to the coverage adopted by Nazi Germany towards the Jews, based mostly initially on financial strangulation, adopted by demonisation and marginalisation and eventually bodily extermination.
The president apprised that in IOJ&Okay political leaders have been incarcerated, the youth are being killed and tortured in jails throughout Occupied Kashmir and northern India. He added that 13,000 Kashmiri boys have been kidnapped and stored in jail homes the place they’re being subjected to torture and brainwashing. Bipin Rawat, India’s Chief of Defence Staff, has stated that these boys (some as younger as 10 years previous) are extra harmful than a pellet-firing shotgun as a result of they increase the slogan of Azadi (freedom) and self-determination, he stated.
The AJK president stated that members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) ought to begin a boycott, divestment and sanctions motion towards India, whereas the company sector of those international locations must be discouraged to spend money on India as they’re committing human rights violations towards Kashmiris and Muslims of India.
“Start by banning the import of non-halal meat into OIC international locations and the formation of a Kashmir Humanitarian Fund with the assistance of the Islamic Development Bank and Islamic Solidarity Fund.”
He additionally advised a world civil society motion be mobilised to delegitimise Hindutva and marketing campaign to declare RSS a terrorist organisation. “The greatest and essentially the most skilled terrorist organisation on the planet is the RSS. They have brazenly declared to focus on Muslims not solely in South Asia however all around the world”, he added.
Appreciating the supportive function of the OIC, Masood Khan appealed to the Arab League and the Gulf Cooperation Council to lift their voice towards Kashmir and name out the egregious human rights violations happening in IOJ&Okay.
Speaking on the web-conference hosted by Pakistan High Commission, the president appealed to highly effective nations to make ethical and authorized selections for bringing India to justice and serving to dismantle this machine of torture in IOJ&Okay. “Silence is a criminal offense when such torture is brazenly happening in any a part of the world”, he stated.
He added that 25,000 Hindus from throughout India have been given domiciles of IOJ&Okay; and in the identical method, wherein Muslim Indians have turn into second class residents, Kashmiris must run from pillar to put up simply to show that they’re state topics. “If we don’t cease this now, IOJ&Okay received’t be a recognisable entity like it’s as we speak. Two million Hindus can be introduced in over the approaching years” he stated.
The AJK president stated that India’s non-permanent seat within the UN Security Council will result in three setbacks within the Council. Firstly, it can attempt to delete the agenda from the UNSC calendar; secondly, they’d make efforts to cease us from holding casual conferences on Kashmir; and thirdly, they may imperil funding of the mandate of the UNMOGIP. “As a everlasting member of the UNSC, the United Kingdom can cease this and create a stability within the UNSC,” stated the president whereas chatting with his viewers.
He urged the British citizenry and its civil society to steer the marketing campaign of letter writing and awareness-raising on Kashmir within the worldwide realm.
He additionally thanked MP Steve Baker for his lively and vocal function in elevating his voice for the Kashmir individuals by authoring a letter. He urged him to make use of his clout with 10 Downing Street and the FCO to mobilise the UK in direction of Kashmir advocacy in each the British Parliament and the UNSC.
The web-conference hosted by the Pakistan High Commission London was attended by Pakistan High Commissioner to the UK Nafees Zakaria, MP Afzal Khan, MP Naz Shah, MP Steve Baker, MP Tony Lloyd, MP, Imran Hussain, MP Khalid Mahmood, Lord Qurban Hussain, Councillor Aasim Rashid, Mr Muzammil Ayub Thakur, Chairman JKSDMI Raja Najabat Hussain, President Tahreek-e-Kashmir UK Fahim Kiyani, Dr Nazir GIllani, Syed Ali Raza, Shaista Safi and different main members of the civil society.
