DR. SYED NAZIR GILANI
Difficult times for the locked down people in Indian a d ministered Jammu and Kashmir (now re-occupied) are not over. Bad times have just begun. The situation was different until 4 August 2019. We had been raising the human rights situation at the United Nations Human Rights Council, previously Commission and the Sub Commission. Indian actions of 5 August and 31 October, have thrown Government of Pakistan, Government of Azad Kashmir, the people of Kashmir and all others off balance. Government of India is pursuing with rigour and method, a policy to grab the Kashmiri land and settle non State Subjects, in order to hurt the Muslim majority and the outcome of any future Plebiscite in Kashmir. In this regard President of India has s i g n e d Jammu Kashm i r Reorganisation Act 2019. Does it mean a n y t h i n g ? The answer is de facto yes and de jure no. The State currently functions as three administrative units. Any such effort in a part of Kashmir has no merit. It is a gross violation of Indian obligations agreed as a member State of UN and as under UN SC Resolutions. India has come into conflict with the people of Kashmir, Government of Pakistan and the United Nations. Vigil needed to check the unlawful doings by the Indian army has been missing, even before the action of 5 August 2019. Indian Government has started making its moves of influencing the habitat and population in Kashmir. The Lt. Governor of Kashmir Girish Chandra Murmu (replacing Governor) has allocated 40 Kanal land for Kendriya Vidyalaya in village Dugmulla – Kupwara and transferred 40 Kanal of Land for developing transit accommodation for Kashmir Migrant Employees under PM’s package in Shopian – Kashmir. It is the beginning of a sinister RSS template to change the demography in Kashmir. Government of India tested waters in this regard in May 2008 and failed. On 26 May 2008, the government of India and state government of Jammu and Kashmir reached an agreement to transfer 99 acres of forest land to the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB) in the main Kashmir valley to set up temporary shelters and facilities for Hindu pilgrims. This caused a controversy. People came out in demonstrations from the Kashmir valley against the land transfer and protests from the Jammu region supported it
