Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider has advised the prime minister and foreign minister of Pakistan "not to issue any statement on Kashmir without proper analysis of its pros and cons."
“Kashmir is a very sensitive issue and anything that can dishearten or agonize the struggling Kashmiris should be avoided at all costs,” he said at a function held here on Friday to mark the martyrdom anniversaries of Mirwaiz Muhammad Farooq and Abdul Ghani Lone.
He was alluding to a recent alleged statement of the foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Article 370 of Indian Constitution that had created quite a stir in Kashmir, apart from India and Pakistan.
“As far as the PML-N is concerned, from Mian Nawaz Sharif to a grassroots level worker, we will continue to fulfill our responsibilities in this regard and we hope the same from other parties,” Haider said.
Paying tributes to the late Mirwaiz and Mr Lone and other martyrs, he said the sacrifices offered by the Kashmiris to actualize their dream of freedom would not go in vain.
Haider stressed that Kashmir was an indivisible entity and no decision on its fate could be made without the consultation and consent of the Kashmiris.
“I want to make it clear that the liberated part of Kashmir [AJK] cannot be converted into a province until the final settlement of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the wishes of Kashmiri people. We will thwart every conspiracy aimed at division of our motherland,” he said.
He said while there was no ideological friction among the freedom seeking Kashmiris in the India occupied territory, the people in the liberated territory were faced with ideological differences even though the right to self determination was a common demand of every Kashmiri.
Haider asserted that the Kashmiris had linked their fate with Pakistan even before its creation and more than 75 years down the line there had been no change in their resolve.
“We can have differences with the government(s) of Pakistan but not with the people of Pakistan who have stood by us like a solid rock for the past 73 years,” he said.
Separately, AJK President Sardar Masood Khan also paid tributes to Mirwaiz Farooq, Ghani Lone and other Kashmiri freedom fighters on their martyrdom anniversary.
In a statement, he reiterated his unflinching resolve that the struggle to get freedom from the oppressive Indian occupation and the realization of the right to self-determination would continue relentlessly and the mission left incomplete by Kashmiri martyrs would be accomplished.
“We vow to carry forward the mission of Kashmiri martyrs who offered supreme sacrifice of their lives to get rid of the oppressive foreign rule,” he asserted.
Describing Mirwaiz Farooq and Ghani Lone as robust voices of the Kashmir freedom struggle that were targeted by the oppressor to weaken the liberation struggle, Khan said that their supreme sacrifices instead gave a new lease of life to the struggle for the right to self determination.
The intensity of the long struggle of the Kashmiris for freedom that has withstood decades of suppression and has grown stronger neither will reduce nor killings, arbitrary detentions, torture, and other brute tactics can dampen the spirit of freedom, he said.
The AJK President assured that the people of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan will continue to extend political and diplomatic support to the struggling people of Jammu and Kashmir and they will not be left alone in their fight for freedom and liberty.
Later, after Friday prayers, the AJK premier also led a rally in Upper Adda to express solidarity with the oppressed people of Palestine and occupied Kashmir.
He called upon the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) to play a lead role in safeguarding Bait-ul-Muqadas and the rights of the oppressed Palestinian and Kashmiri people.
Tariq Naqash
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