Altaf Hameed Rao;
MIRPUR (AJK): Leaders of various nationalist political groups at a joint meeting here late Tuesday called for immediate reunification of Azad Jammu Kashmir and Gilgit / Baltistan and formation of the constitutional assemblies of the two parts of the erstwhile Jammu Kashmir state, says an official press statement issued by the JKPNP here Tuesday.
Various national political groups of Jammu & Kashmir state, at a joint meeting here on Tuesday resolved to rally round a flag to step up the struggle for the early settlement of Kashmir issue in line with the aspirations of the State’s population besides to secure and safeguard the due rights of the people of the erstwhile Jammu Kashmir state including Azad Jammu Kashmir.
The extra-ordinary joint meeting of the top leaders of the kashmiri nationalist political parties was hosted by Jammu Kashmir Peoples National Party, The meeting discussed and debated in length the current affairs in the backdrop of the Kashmir freedom movement.
Besides the chief host of the meeting – Zulfiqar Ahmed Raja Advocate, Chairman Jammu Kashmir Peoples National Party, the meeting was attended and addressed by the UK-based elderly Kashmiri nationalist Jabar Butt, Jammu Kashmir Plebiscite Front leader Azeem Dutt Advocate, J & K Workers Party leader Rizwan Karamat, J&K Freedom Movement leader Shafique Kiyani, NAP’s leader Aslam Watnoof, Ghalib Bostan Advocate, Ehtisham ul Haq Advocate, Khawer Shareef Advocate, Hafiz Muhammad Arif, Asif Kashmir, Muhammad Bashir Qadri and others.
The joint moot unanimously decided to gear up the all out collective struggle through infusing complete mental cohesion, mutual harmony and unity for making the Kashmir freedom struggle complete success besides for ensuring to get addressed the local and regional issues of public interest in Azad Jammu Kashmir.
The meeting unanimously adopted a strategy to step up the struggle for the complete independence of the Jammu Kashmir state, the statement said.
According to the statement, the Kashmiri nationalists moot unanimously passed various resolutions with pledge to move ahead to achieve the above mentioned tasks including for making the Kashmir freedom struggle complete success through the collective efforts.
The meeting also unanimously decided to take up the immediate need of taking up the matter of the urgent need of complete unity among the nationalists in the next central committees meetings of their respective parties for the sake of formation of a broad-based United Front of the AJK-based nationalist political parties, according to the statement.
Through a resolution, the nationalist political groups called for immediate reunification of Azad Jammu Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan and formation of legislative assembly of both historic and geographical parts of the State.
Through the unanimously passed resolutions, the meeting called for early demilitarization of the entire state including the Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir to pave the way for the settlement of the Kashmir issue in line with the aspirations of the people of the state, major stake holder to the lingering issue.
The meeting, through another resolution, categorically turned down, what it called, the forcibly-imposed Order-2018 in Gilgit / Baltistan. The meeting reiterated complete solidarity with the valiant population of Gilgit / Baltistan in their reported ongoing struggle for achievement of their due rights.
Lambasting Act 1974, the interim constitution of AJK, the meeting termed it a long document of slavery and demanded its complete abolition. Describing Azad Jammu Kashmir Council an unwarranted and uncalled for forum imposed upon the people of Jammu Kashmir in form of East India Company, the nationalists moot called for immediate dissolution of the AJK Council to provide the AJK people, a sigh of relief, from this, what they called, parallel government imposed upon the people of Azad Jammu Kashmir.
Seeking early solution of the local heated issues, the meeting, through separate unanimously passed resolutions, called for the early exemption of Azad Jammu Kashmir from power load shedding keeping in view the twice supreme sacrifices of the people of Mirpur for the construction and later raising of the Mangla dam on its soil.
The meeting also demanded immediate supply of 700 cusecs of water from Mangla dam for drinking and irrigation purposes for Mirpur district primarily for the revival of the incomplete Rs. Seven billion greater water supply and sewerage projects, which has so far been almost collapsed before completion, it underlined.
The meeting also called for early ending of double and triple taxation system in Azad Jammu Kashmir, it added.
