Islamabad, (Parliament Times) : Settlement of Jammu and Kashmir dispute as per the wishes of Kashmiri people under United Nations Organization (UNO) resolutions is vital for the durable and permanent peace of South Asia.
These views were expressed by the speakers at a National Peace Colloquium jointly organized by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and Jammu and Kashmir Salvation Movement (JKSM) in connection with World Peace Day here at National Press Club (NPC).
Convener All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Faiz Naqshbandi said that India is violating all international laws while changing the demography of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). ” Kashmiris neither have right to live freely nor they are being given choice to die as per their wish. The death of Syed Ali Shah Geelani and his forcible burial shows that the Indian government does not allow Kashmiris to die peacefully and after this all what kind of sacrifices the world wants from the people of IIOJK”, APHC Convener Naqashbandi added.
Chairman JKSM Altaf Ahmad Bhat’s statement was circulated in the conference in which he said that peace nowadays is the most abused and dangerous word. The western hegemony and realistic approach of world powers lead it to extent that in the name of peace countries were destroyed, millions were killed, a million others were forced to migrate. Children including elderly people were made to suffer. The same doctrine is related to IIOJK peace. In the name of peace and development people were and are made more and more conjugated in oppression by the world’s largest extremist democracy. Bhat said common people in IIOJK suffer in every respect when it comes to peacebuilding like the Indian definition of peacebuilding is killing innocent people to maintain negative peace to hoodwink the world that Kashmiri people are with us as we maintain stability in the region.
He said from personal liberty and rights to common rights of masses everything is closely censored by authorities to stop the budding voices against aggression and oppression in IIOJK.
He said for Kashmiri people peace means fulfilling the commitment by giving them a right to choose their future. India is trying to use political censorship to suppress the Kashmiri people for so-called forced and maintained peace. But history will repeat itself in the future and expose all their ill and odd orders against IIOJK people.
Negative peace is visible by establishing the power cells of forces to monitor the common people of Kashmir by using the force of gun and bullet and the same is sold as see the change in Kashmir. Chairman JKSM Bhat further said renaming the roads and educational institutes after their loyalists will never legitimize their say on IIOJK and will be never a way for sustainable positive peace in South Asia and it is only the final Kashmir settlement as per Kashmiri people’s wishes that will bring tranquillity in South Asia.
Former Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Minister Farzana Yaqoob said that Pakistan should adopt a proactive diplomatic approach to reach the main powers of the world and remind them of their role in the solution of the Kashmir dispute.
Farzana said that Kashmiris gave matchless sacrifices that must be honored by the world and sells this vexed issue of South Asia to bring peace to the region.
Another APHC leader Sheikh Abdul Mateen said that the people of IIOJK will never bow before India till the final settlement which is only freedom from Indian slavery.
Another APHC leader Advocate Pervez Ahamd Shah said that the world must pay attention to the rising human rights abuses in IIOJK committed by the Indian government to suppress the political voices of Kashmir.
Vice President HRCP Bashir Khan Saddozai said that India’s human rights record is worst in IIOJK which is enough to grill India at the International Court of Justice for committing crimes against humanity. He said global powers should come forward and speak against the Indian atrocities committed by its nine lakh troops in IIOJK since 1989.