‘Give dog a bad name and hang him’ is India’s policy in IIOJK: Rehmani
Islamabad: Muhammad Farooq Rehmani, former Convener of All Parties Hurriyat Conference-AJK chapter, has categorically stated that no Hurriyat group had any link with the tragic episode of Pahalgam, as tourism being an issue of livelihood for the Kashmiris for many decades. However, he condemned hue and cry raised by India and her propagandists immediately in the wake of the incident.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Indian army, paratroopers and police, which had Continously been involved in bulldozing , demolishing and in the seizure of houses and lands of the inhabitants in the besieged region since August 2019, now intensified the operations, adding modern history’s greatest dreadful episode in the shape of separating married couples and toddlers from their mothers to be deported to Pakistan.
All such families and their siblings: former Kashmiri mujahideen and their Pakistani wives had returned to IIOJ&K some decades earlier with the consent and permission of the two governments. The separation and deportation of these women to Pakistan, is a brazen attack by the Indian government on social and humanitarian values and international humanitarian law, which never allowed any government to sabotage a recognised social and humanitarian order under the pretext of some kind of political disturbance and violence.
Muhammad Farooq Rehmani reminded the world community about India’s frequent massacres during the last 35 years, such as Gawkadal carnage 1990, Sopore carnage, 1993, Handwara massacre 1990 , Bijbaharda carnage, 1993, zakora bypass massacre 1990, konanposhpore gang rape tragedy 1991, Shopian kidnapping , rape and murder of 2 girls Aasia and Neelofar — all by the military, paratroopers and police, but the culprits were never arrested, nor brought to book or sentenced by the authorities.
He stated ,India had ignored and played down these tragic episodes and had gone to war on the Kashmiris in the the name of Pahalgam unfortunate killings. Although, the Kashmiris were innocent as tourists were a source of their income and they were always hospitable to tourists irrespective of their cast , creed and nationality. Today, he said the Occupied region had been changed to a war zone, where life had been made terribly difficult for the Kashmiris. He appealed to the UN to take note of the worst situation of the IIOJ&K, use its authority to begin an investigation of the unfolding events following the Pahalgam tragedy to give relief to the people and finally look into the root cause of the conflict by addressing the dispute as a whole on the basis of the established facts of Jammu and Kashmir.
