Muzaffarabad:
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) The government has failed to bear the “higher burden of liability” with regard to Kashmir -Tvisten and the ongoing freedom movement in the valley.
These views were expressed by Dr. Syed Nazir Gilani, President of Jammu and Kashmir Council for Human Rights, in a special conversation with this correspondent here on Sunday.
He noted that the people of Jammu and Kashmir were the primary party in the Plebiscite with Pakistan as the other party. He added that the 1974 law essentially constituted the annexation of AJK to Pakistan.
Unfortunately, the AJK government has “miserably failed” to expand this annexation to the Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), he added.
Dr. Gilani claimed that if the AJK government had succeeded in uniting people from all segments in IIOJK, especially Kashmiri pandits, Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists, about the demand for the right to self-determination, it would have facilitated the annexation of the entire Jammu and Kashmir region to Pakistan through a vote.
This in turn would have expanded Pakistan’s influence among kashmiris and been reflected in the plebiscit with a vote to Pakistan’s advantage.
However, he maintained that the AJK government not only failed to fulfill its responsibility for IIOJK’s freedom, but also came to an end to expand the scope of Kashmiris’ connection to Pakistan.
