ISLAMABAD, Oct 26 (APP/DNA):Chairman Kashmir Institute of International Relations Altaf Hussain Wani has said that 27 October was the darkest day in Kashmir’s recent history.
“India’s naked aggression on this fateful day in 1947 is the root cause of the Kashmir conflict that continues to threatens peace and stability in the South Asian region even after the passage of 76 years”, Wani said in a statement issued here today.
This act of aggression, he said, had not only created hurdles in the way of a smooth and successful implementation of the partition plan but also pushed the entire region into a quagmire of chaos and instability.
“The bloodshed that India started in occupied Jammu and Kashmir in 1947 is still going on unabated”, the KIIR chief said, adding that it was quite unfortunate that the blood of innocent Kashmiris was being spilled with impunity on the streets of Kashmir.
Referring to India’s history of colonizing Kashmir, he said, “The settler colonialism policies of the Indian government, which mirror Israel’s policies, have instilled a sense of fear among Kashmiris who feel increasingly unsafe and insecure even in their homeland.”
“The deadly conflict has now assumed dangerous proportions after the Indian fascist regime led by BJP stripped the region of its special status guaranteed to it under article 370 of the Indian constitution,” he said.
Terming India’s belligerent military occupation of Kashmir as a great threat to peace and stability in the region, Wani said that it was quite alarming that the world powers have been ignoring this dangerous aspect of this long drawn conflict.
Urging the influential world governments and institutions to take effective notice of the matter, the KIIR chairman said, “The dispute, if left unresolved, is bound to consume more precious lives besides fuelling unrest in this highly volatile region”.
“Along with using it’s repressive state apparatus, the Indian rulers have been Machiavellian machinations and colonial tactics as a tool to crush the Kashmiris’ legitimate political aspirations and silence democratic dissent in the region,” he lamented.
“Notwithstanding to its commitments on Kashmir the successive Indian governments and rulers have unabashedly pursued a policy of deceit and deception to neutralize the Kashmiri masses’ legitimate demands for holding a referendum”, he said.
UNSC resolutions calling for a free and impartial plebiscite in the region was endorsed by the Indian representative in the UN Security Council in particular the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru who was the first to approach the highest forum on the matter, he added.
About the recently concluded elections in the occupied territory, Wani said, “The so-called polls, being used by India as an instrument to maintain status-quo in the region, do not offer any solution to the Kashmir issue.”
He said, “It is high time that the global community must take effective cognizance of the India’s prolonged military occupation of the disputed territory and play its due role to settle the conflict in accordance with the UNSC resolutions.”
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