Praying for harmony in Kashmir

Hira Irfan
Kashmir Day is observed by people throughout Pakistan and Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK) on February 5, as solidarity day in a befitting manner to pay homage to Kashmiri martyrs and expressed unity with struggling people of Indian occupied Kashmir (IOK) in their struggle for freedom from Indian subjugation. The Founder of the Nation Quaid-e-Azam termed Kashmir the jugular vein of Pakistan. Kashmir has remained an uncertain block for the normalisation of bilateral relations between India and Pakistan. It is a core issue with which is connected the future of peace in South Asia.
Since 1948 Kashmir was a big issue for the UNO that is why many debates and discussions are made in between these two countries representatives but all in vein and ends without any final result. These two countries fought 4 wars just on the issue of Kashmir. Indian capital New Delhi has not shown any reaction yet to resolve the problems of Kashmir’s but making their commitment with the Pakistan Capital Islamabad but the reality is that just because of to create relationships between these two countries capital but instead of focusing their relation if Indians try to be loyal with Kashmir that will be better. Moreover, the shame elections in IOK being conducted in presence of lakhs of Indian troops was nothing but a military exercise. Keeping in view the election polls showed the double-speak of Narendra Modi-led BJP and its evil intensions against Kashmir and the Kashmiri’s just struggle for securing their absolute right to self-determination. The detention of Hurriyet leaders and activists in jails and police stations was a blot on the so-called democratic face of India. In addition, India has been engaging 0.7 million of its army to suppress the voice of Kashmiri’s and committing worst kind of human rights violation in the held state but the superpowers are silent over her atrocities. Peace in region cannot be restored until the liberation of the innocent Kashmir’s from Indian jaws.
President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob Khan said that observing Solidarity Day with zeal every year was testimony to Pakistan’s unflinching resolve towards Kashmir cause. He said, “The Indian government despite use of brutal force and deployment of more than eight hundred thousand armed forces in the valley could not suppress the Freedom Movement and Kashmiri’s love for Pakistan. The hoisting of Pakistani flags in public gathering is a testimony to the stance”. Pakistan is incomplete without Kashmir and the Freedom Movement was in fact for the completion of Pakistan as Kashmiri leadership on July 19, 1947 at the residence of Founder AJK President Sardar Ibrahim Khan in Srinagar had announced their accession to Pakistan Resolution.
On the contrary, India has always denied the right of freedom to the innocent Kashmiri masses and tried to suppress their voice through extra-judicially mass killings, arbitrary arrests, ruthless and inhuman torture and sexual molestation using the instrument of Indian security forces. A draconian law called “The Armed Forces Special Powers Act” (AFSPA), imposed in 1958 in Indian Held Kashmir, provides the army and paramilitaries with almost total impunity, enabling them to arrest people without a warrant and on mere suspicion of their planning a terrorist act and allowing the security forces to “fire upon or otherwise use force even to the causing of death”. According to statistics, in last twenty four years 93,979 innocent Kashmiri’s have been martyred, 1, 07,466 children orphaned, 10,084 women raped and 7,014 Kashmiri’s have been killed in custody. The discovery of unidentified mass graves in Kashmir is also another darkest chapter of human rights violations in 10K. In defiance to all international humanitarian laws, India is still continuing with its oppressive policies.
A peaceful and silent state in Kashmir can not came into being before resolving main dispute of Kashmir so that is why all Muslims community all over the world gather on 5th February to show world especially India that all Pakistanis are still with their Kashmiri brothers and will be there hands and ammunition if they need. The Kashmir issue must not be put on the backburner, nor should normalisation of relations with India come at the cost of silence on the struggle of our brothers and sisters in Indian Occupied Kashmir. The sacrifices rendered by the people of Kashmir to achieve right to self-determination will never go in vain.