Kashmir cause, calls for do more

Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar reached Muzaffarabad, the capital of Azad Kashmir and basecamp for the Kashmir freedom struggle, to reaffirm Pakistan’s unwavering moral, political, and diplomatic support to the people of Kashmir. During his address to the special session of the AJ&K legislative Assembly, Premier categorically rejected the recent verdict of the Indian Supreme Court calling it a politically motivated decision and a tool to consolidate Indian illegal occupation of globally recognized disputed territory. Kakar called on the Modi regime to desist from consolidating its occupation, revoke the illegal unilateral actions of August 5, 2019, and not change the demography of the disputed territory. During his address to the topmost political forum of the Azad Kashmir, the Premier stressed upon India to halt the human rights abuses in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IIOJK), repeal emergency laws, withdraw heavy military presence and provide unhindered access to the United Nations bodies and the international media. Kakar announced that Pakistan would continue to stand alongside the people of Kashmir in their struggle and wished them to enjoy their due rights.

In the aftermath of the Supreme Court of India’s shameful verdict on the status of Indian Illegal Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), the Pakistani government moved in its peculiar traditional style. i.e. condemnation through media releases, repetition of old phrases, meetings, speeches, rallies, and leaders’ hoe and cry that Pakistanis and Kashmiris witnessed after the blatant denial of Kashmiris’ right to self-determination and fundamental status under the constitution of India through Arctile-370 and Section 35. Then the PTI government under former Prime Minister Imran Khan prophesied New Delhi’s move, a domestic matter of India that did not jeopardize the legal status of occupied Jammu and Kashmir at the global level. After almost five years, the Modi regime has come up with another strategy that aims at complicating the Kashmir dispute and pushing it further away from the settlement in line with the UN resolutions and aspirations of the people of Kashmir. While Pakistani leaders rush to Muzaffarabad to resound their decades-old narrative without stepping up their efforts to reinvigorate the Kashmir dispute and challenge India’s unlawful action at the global forums including the UN Security Council (UNSC), the UNGA, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and other relevant forums to undo and neutralized New Delhi’s oppressive doctrine that is ruthlessly heading to dismantle the Kashmir dispute.

Although, Kashmir is Pakistan’s jugular vein and the word ‘Pakistan’ is incomplete without Kashmir. Kashmir runs in our blood. Jammu and Kashmir remain an important facet of Pakistan’s foreign policy, yet India’s continued military siege and recurrent political, legal, and diplomatic aggression against innocent unarmed Kashmiris merits some result-oriented, time-bound practical measures other than cosmetic diplomatic campaigns that rendered Modi’s Kashmir doctrine null and void. In fact, Kashmiris have suffered the utmost miseries and oppression at the hands of the Indian government and its brutal security forces over the past decades. Thousands of Kashmiris had been killed, thousands faced forced disappearances and sustained pellet gun injuries, and thousands of the women suffered molestation. Mass human rights abuses underway in Jammu and Kashmir that were also documented in the UN reports and global human rights organizations, but global conscious and morality remain asleep and the Modi regime introduced new legislation every other day that bars the fundamental rights of Kashmiri Muslims. It is high time that Pakistani leaders Shedd off their traditional slackness and fruitless strategies of baboos sitting in the Foreign Ministry by taking bold steps, putting Modi’s regime in trouble. Otherwise, India’s open war against Pakistan and its jugular vein (Kashmir) will not come to an end at any time in the future.