Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan Thursday said the recommendation of US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to blacklist India for being a dangerous country for the minorities, was a proof that its black face now stood fully exposed before the world and it could no longer deceive the international community through its mantra of democracy.
Commenting on the recent report of the USCIRF through different tweets, he said India had emerged as the most violent and turbulent Islamophobic hotspot where the worst wave of hatred and violence against the minorities, particularly the Muslims, was being directly patronized by the government. He said the Muslims, who formed the largest minority in India, felt themselves totally helpless and insecure because the state, which was to protect their rights, life and property, itself had become their enemy.
The AJK president said the Indian Government had unleashed a reign of terror against its Muslim citizens as well as the people of occupied Kashmir when the whole world was engaged to combat the novel coronavirus. “Since Aug 5, 2019, India has imposed a kleptocracy on the occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The occupiers have stolen Kashmiris’ flag, constitution and civil and political rights. Now they have set out a diabolical plan to steal Kashmiris’ right to life, identity, land, jobs, businesses.”
Sardar Masood said the puppet regime in occupied Kashmir violating the internationally-recognized disputed status of Jammu and Kashmir, had started issuing domicile certificates to hundreds of thousands of Hindus to rehabilitate them in the held territory. In that situation, he feared that in coming days, the right of permanent residence would be granted, besides more than 600,000 non-Kashmiri Hindus, to about one million Indian troops deployed in the occupied Kashmir.
Strongly condemning violence by the Indian police, including the use of baton charge and teargas against the funeral procession of Bilal Ahmed in Pulwama district, the AJK president described it a cowardly act. India, he said, had tested every means, including repression, state terrorism and incentives etc, but it could not break the will of Kashmiri people and could not compel them to call off their liberation movement and give up their demand for the right to self-determination. The Kashmiri people would continue their struggle till they achieved freedom and the right to self determination, he added.
