ISLAMABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan has said that occupation forces in Indian Held Kashmir (IHK) were pushing youth towards militancy and armed resistance by threatening them with punitive military measures.
The president was speaking during his address to trainee officers at the Police College in Sihala.
“The movement of the people of Kashmir is indigenous and peaceful. India is denying Kashmiri youth and Kashmiri freedom leaders the political space they need by chokingoff all channels of communication,” he said.
He condemned a statement made by the Indian military command that it would use more repression against Kashmiris. “How many more Kashmiris do you want to kill?” he asked.
Masood Khan pointed out that India had launched a two pronged attack. He said that India was killing Kashmiris in IHK with impunity, which is a war on a mass scale against unarmed civilians; while it had simultaneously initiated fourth generation warfare against Pakistan, its people and institutions.
“This twin warfare must end if want to see peace and stability in region,” he said.
Masood Khan said that the people of Kashmir and Pakistan were demanding dialogue and diplomacy while India was pushing militarism and state terrorism. “The currency of India’s aggression and unbridled violence against Kashimirs would be devalued by the political will of the Kashmiris,” the president said.
The AJK leader said that the Kashmiri people’s sacrifices and moral power had demonstrated that India would not be able to annex and assimilate their territory into the Indian federation.
“Article 370 of the Indian constitution is but a figleaf for India’s occupation of the Kashmir territory, which its people have demonstrably rejected. Now India was resorting to naked aggression to devour the occupied territory”, he said.
“This will not happen,” he emphasised, highlighting that the message of the people of Kashmir was clear, ‘leave India’.
The Kashmiri leader said that enlightened political forces in India should put pressure on its government to open channels for political dialogue with the Kashmiris in IHK and with Pakistan.
He emphasised on the strong and unbreakable connection between Pakistan and Kashmir. “Their mountains and rivers, their economies, their waters and their people have created eternal bond between them. Their security is interdependent,” he said.
Masood Khan said that the police force played a key role in the promotion and protection of human rights, provision of security to its citizens and in creating an environment for stability and economic development. He urged policemen to hone their professional skills to repulse the forces that plan and execute subversion, terrorism and proxy war against Pakistan and Azad Kashmir.
