Statement by Zafar Khan, the head JKLF’s Diplomatic Bureau On the Illegal Dismemberment of Jammu Kashmir by the Indian government:
Statement by Zafar Khan, the head of Jammu Kashmir
Liberation Front’s Diplomatic Bureau
On the Illegal Dismemberment of Jammu Kashmir
by the Indian government:
·
A
reunified and sovereign state of Jammu Kashmir will be in the best interest of
India, which in its composition as a society, is more disparate than Pakistan,
than a broken and dismembered Jammu Kashmir:
·
There
can be no compromise on our inherent, inalienable and internationally
recognised unfettered, and sovereign right to self-determination.
London 8 August:
In a statement issued in London from its international Secretariat, the
Diplomatic Bureau of the JKLF strongly condemned Indian government’s illegal decision
to dismember the state of Jammu Kashmir.
The head of JKLF’s Diplomatic Bureau Prof
Zafar Khan called the Modi government’s decision illegal as well as a
monumental folly. And said that abrogation of article 370 means that Jammu Kashmir’s
conditional constitutional relationship with the Indian union was at an end
both in terms of India’s domestic and international law which, renders India’s
presence in Jammu Kashmir as that of an occupying foreign power.
The head of JKLF’s Diplomatic Bureau said that
People of Jammu Kashmir have not only been betrayed by the right wing
chauvinist RSS supported BJP government of India, but it has also snubbed the
international community with utter disregard and disdain regarding India’s
international commitments and obligations to the people, and on their right of self-determination.
He
said that through illegal annexation the Modi government wilfully sought to break
up territorial unity of Jammu Kashmir and destroy its unique character and
identity through absorption as union territory to rule directly from New Delhi’
and also to inflame sectarian and communalism to aid his party’s political
objectives in India itself.
Zafar
Khan said that 5 August 2019 for ever will be etched in the memory of people in
Jammu Kashmir as a black day, and a catastrophe or a day of Nakba as Prime
Minister Modi and his ultra-chauvinist henchmen deviously contrived to replicate
a Palestine like situation, particularly in the valley of Kashmir to engineer a
demographic change.
He
said the world was watching this so called Modi’s RSS inspired final solution
of the Kashmir issue, which in reality means that millions of men, women and
children are now imprisoned in their own homes completely cut off from each
other in their own country and from the rest of the civilised world, with guns of
literally tens of thousands of India’s para military and military troops,
pointed at their heads throughout the greater valley of Kashmir, in the Pir
Panjal region, and in the regions of Doda, Kishtwar, Badarwah and parts of
Jammu including Rajauri and Poonch. He condemned the total siege and lock down of
Kashmir and demanded that the iron curtain which has descended on Jammu Kashmir,
turning the entire region from Kargil to Rajauri into a gigantic prison, must
be lifted.
He
said Indian government should not harbour any misconception of disunity among
the citizens of the state as there is an in build internal unity and solidarity
of long standing among the Dogras, in Jammu and Muslims in the valley and other
parts of the state on the sanctity of 35 A which is a direct attack on the
identity and wellbeing of inhabitants from all ethnic and social and religious
backgrounds.
Zafar Khan pointed out that absorption of
Jammu Kashmir into the Indian union in such an underhand and deceitful manner
will not be acceptable and will prove to be fatally detrimental to the Indian
union itself, as is being recognised by a very large number of people across
all sections of the Indian society. The head of the JKLF’s Diplomatic Bureau
strongly emphasised that a reunified and sovereign state of Jammu Kashmir will
be in the best interest of India, which in its composition as a society, is
more disparate than Pakistan, than a broken and dismembered Jammu Kashmir.
Zafar Khan strongly condemned the politically
motivated incarceration of JKLF Chairman Yasin Malik and many other Kashmiri
leaders who are being kept in Delhi’s Tihar jail. He said Yasin Malik, Shabir
Shah and many others are patriotic Kashmiris who want a peaceful resolution of
the Kashmir issue and supportive of dialogue between India, Pakistan and the
Kashmiri leadership. Keeping these leaders behind bars and others under house
arrest is not only inhuman, vindictive and politically motivated but also
colonialistic, and a loss to the achievement of a lasting resolution of the
conflict. He called on the Modi government to release the Kashmiri leaders as
they are a part of the solution not a part of the problem.
Zafar
Khan strongly emphasised that the just and historic struggle for a dignified
and peaceful resolution of the issue will continue, as there can be no compromise
made on our inherent, inalienable and
internationally recognised unfettered, and sovereign right to self-determination.
END
Prof Zafar Khan
Head of Diplomatic
Bureau
Jammu Kashmir
liberation Front-JKLF-
International
Secretariat-119-123 Cannon St Road London E1 2XL
Email: zafargk@aol.com
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