KASHMIR DIASPORA ALLIANCE MEETING IN MIRPUR, AZAD
KASHMIR, PAKISTAN CONDEMNS INDIAN OCCUPATION AND ATROCITIES IN MAQBOOZA
KASHMIR: HABIB YOUSAFZAI
The Kashmir Diaspora Alliance encompassing Habib
Yousafzai arranged a meeting with the citizens of Mirpur, Azad Kashmir,
Pakistan. The meeting thoroughly discussed the situation of Maqbooza Kashmir.
The residents of Mirpur asserted that the atrocities in Maqbooza Kashmir are
widespread and grave both in number and the degree of their severity. Most
recently 4 youth have been killed in Shopian, Srinagar marking just one more
example of the precarious and dire situation in Maqbooza Kashmir.
Originally, in 1947 India forcefully occupied Muslim states such as
Manawa, Junagar, Hyderabad, and 42000 square miles of Jammu and Kashmir. With
the initial occupation of Jammu and Kashmir by the Indian government in the
third week of August 1947 came the killing of more than a 100,000 of its
inhabitants and 2 million of its citizens were forced to leave to Pakistan. In
order to increase its material power it also occupied the Sikh Homeland of
Punjab, Khalistan which was the birth right of the Sikh nation in order to
solidify its hegemony. 1971 was just another stepping stone and continuation in
the agenda of the Indian state in establishing itself as a regional hegemon as
India further destabilized Pakistan by successfully dismembering East Pakistan.
Under the precursor of establishing law, order, and justice, the Indian state attempted to legitimate its occupation of Maqbooza Kashmir. Yet, six decades later, India remains as an invader in Maqbooza Kashmir indiscriminately committing gross human rights violations. The people of Jammu and Kashmir are under a firm and collective consensus in that they would like to see every single Indian armed and civil personnel withdraw from the occupied territories. Due to its inaction in following through with the 1948 Security Council Resolution that they themselves initiated, the international community in coordination with Pakistan must put diplomatic pressure on India and follow through with the inhabitants of Maqbooza Kashmir’s right of plebiscite. Only through such means can the people of the occupied territories truly receive justice.
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