Statement by the JKLF on India’s military build-up and threat to further disintegration of Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir.

 
In its statement on the current flurry of military and political activities in Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir, the Diplomatic Bureau of the JKLF- has strongly condemned India’s sinister machinations to further disintegrate the internationally disputed territory to fulfil political and ideological objectives of the incumbent BJP/RSS rulers of India.

He added that the people of all the regions in Jammu Kashmir as it existed prior to 5 August 2019, must remain on their full guard and vigilance to stave off another wave of aggression, and stop further grievous damage to their basic interests, fundamental human, civil, and political rights and freedoms.

He pointed out that its worth remembering that, despite India’s international obligations on the Kashmir issue, and her commitments to people of Jammu Kashmir, the Modi led BJP government of India with blatant disregard of international legality annexed, and bifurcated semi-independent Jammu Kashmir, took away its special status, turned it into two union territories and began to directly rule it from New Delhi as a conquered colonial entity.

He further added that the aggression committed by the Modi government against Jammu Kashmir on 5 August 2019, was meant to collectively humiliate a proud state and its people with a long history, a strong sense of identity, communal tolerance and strong composite culture and heritage. The aggression took place in a veil of secrecy, unprecedented military reinforcements, curfews, siege, dis-information, media and communications blackout, and arrests of political opponents who continue to languish under politically motivated charges in prisons across India.

Zafar Khan strongly rejected any attempts by the Indian government to enforce a solution of the Kashmir issue with geographical and social disintegration of Jammu Kashmir through demographic, and spatial changes in any part of the state including creation of enclaves, with Sainak/ settler colonies on the Israeli model, either within the valley of Kashmir or any other part of the state.

He pointed out that the people of Jammu Kashmir on either side of the ceasefire line in their forcibly divided homeland between India and Pakistan, were sovereign and their sovereignty was inherent and inalienable, and that the Kashmiris will not tolerate dilution, of their sovereign rights, disintegration of their geography and diminution of their physical presence through demographic change.

The head of JKLF’s Diplomatic Bureau however, expressed serious concerns, and warned of the strong likelihood of hiving off territory in the valley, or elsewhere for the purpose of creating spatial and social dislocation, and displacement of the local people, and to affect their livelihood, for the nefarious objectives of majoritarian electoral politics by the BJP in Jammu Kashmir and in India itself.

Zafar Khan called on the international community, the UNSC, and in particular the P5 to intervene, and ensure the survival of a nation from the terminal threat of extinction through aggression against Jammu Kashmir from the Modi government’s Juggernaut.  He strongly reiterated JKLF’s steadfast position on the peaceful resolution of the Kashmir issue and called on the UN Secretary General Mr Antonio Guterres to call on India and Pakistan on behalf of the Kashmiris for tripartite dialogue process for a lasting and equitable resolution of the more than seven decades old issue/ dispute. End:

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Zafar Khan

Chairman- Diplomatic Bureau of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF 
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