US sees Kashmir Dispute through the prism of India due to Realpolitik: President AJK

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Islamabad 09 July (Online Int’l): Sardar Masood Khan, President Azad Jammu and Kashmir, has said that because of US’ protection to India in the United Nations Security Council, the latter is operating with absolute impunity in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJK).This is where, he said, realpolitik is steering dynamics of the Kashmir dispute. Both the US and India have economic and defence partnerships, and this has become a barrier for the US, as it sees the Kashmir dispute through the prism of India, he said.

The AJK President made these remarks while addressing a virtual conference of club members belonging to different walks of life of a prestigious IVY League institute.The address was followed by a comprehensive Q&A session.

In his introductory remarks, the President while explaining the genesis of the Kashmir issue said that in 1947, the people of Jammu of Kashmir had to choose either to accede to Pakistan or India.The partition did not take place according to plan and India invaded the territory and has since occupied it.

“Things have not changed since then.The killing spree continues”, he said. The President said that on August 5 of last year, the people of IOJK were stripped of their special rights to education, employment, acquisition of property and permanent residence which had been protected under Article 35-A. Subsequently, in the same year on October 31M and April 2 of this year India, without consulting its people, annexed IOJK (Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh), bringing it under the direct control of Delhi and then after that introduced New Domicile Rules respectively.

The fascist Indian government has begun settling non-native Hindus from all over India in IOJK. He said the plan is to transform the demography and reduce the Muslim majority into a minority. “This is, plain and simple, land grab. Kashmiris are running from pillar to post just to prove that they are State subjects. They are facing disenfranchisement, dispossession and displacement”, he said. If this continues, in a matter of a few years, we would not have a Kashmir with its distinct identity, he warned.

“The New Domicile Rules introduced in IOJK are akin to the policy followed by Nazi Germany against the Jews, based initially on economic strangulation, followed by demonisation and marginalisation and finally physical extermination”, said Masood Khan.

President Masood said that the killings have not stopped; rather they have intensified.

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