Muzaffarabad, (Parliament Times) : Former Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Raja Muhammad Farooq Haider Khan, while addressing an emergency press conference along with former government minister Syed Shaukat Ali Shah, has said that the Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir violated the constitution and law to protect a non-state person for political interests and made an illegal attempt to declare a person as a state citizen whose state residence certificate has been proven to be fake.
He said, “The citizenship certificate of such a person has been declared fake in the light of the court’s decision, but despite this, the current government is trying to protect him by getting the cabinet to take a decision on political grounds. This is not only a mockery of the constitution of Azad Kashmir but also an open conspiracy against the state identity,”.
He said that if today we are protecting non-state persons, then tomorrow how will we criticize India’s abrogation of Article 35-A? “This duplicity will not work. We will go to every constitutional and legal forum to protect state laws and challenge this move,”.
He warned that “this dangerous path is being opened under which tomorrow any non-state person can come and become an employee, minister or even president and prime minister here. This is a destructive path for future generations,”
He said that the police and the administration violated the sanctity of the Legislative Assembly yesterday and tried to arrest former minister Syed Shaukat Ali Shah, who belongs to a respected and prominent tribe on both sides of Kashmir, from the Assembly building, which was not only an unconstitutional act but also an insult to the state parliamentary traditions.
Referring to the weakness of the Speaker Legislative Assembly, he said that he would meet with the Speaker and ask him to ask who entered the administration and the police building to arrest a Syed Shaukat Ali Shah also spoke in detail at the press conference.
He said that “Asim Sharif Butt’s resident state certificate was declared fake by the court after several years of legal battle, but the government obstructed the implementation of the decision and an illegal attempt was made to accept a non -state person as a state citizen.” An interference. “Syed Shaukat Shah raised the question,” If we take such steps, how will the state’s special identity be eliminated, we have to defend our constitutional and state identity.