Exiled Kashmir business community icon urges world to stop India from anti-Kashmiri designs in IIOJK
MIRPUR (AJK), (Parliament Times): “Time is running out. If there is a delay in stopping India in its increased anti-Kashmiris designs in IIOJK, we will have Kashmir but without Kashmiris”, said Dr. Mubeen Shah, exiled leader of Kashmiri business community from occupied Kashmir.
Talking to our Special AJK Correspondent Altaf Hamid Rao on Tuesday from the Turkish city of Istanbul, where he is living in exile for past many years after having been utterly sick and perplexed by the Indian brutalities in IIOJK, the former President of Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Occupied Srinagar said: “Jammu Kashmir people are looking for early settlement of Kashmir issue through the United Nations besides through the international criminal court and the international court of Justice”.
While referring to a joint Communique, which had been issued by the OIC Contact Group in Jammu and Kashmir, in Islamabad on March 22 last year, Dr. Mubeen Shah, also the Ex-President of Jammu Kashmir Joint Chamber of Commerce & Industry, said the communique, among other things, had contained the action plan of which he would like to point out that in their bilateral engagements with India, the forum raised the Jammu and Kashmir dispute to advance a peaceful resolution in accordance with UNSC resolutions committing grant of Kashmiris birth Right of Self Determination, the foremost human right violations that India is committing besides all other human rights violations in the bleeding vale of Indian occupied Kashmir because of the continual denial of the International norms and commitments towards the settlement of the lingering Kashmir conflict, he added.
Dr. Shah called upon the OIC to ensure the implementation of its other decisions taken in the above moot including the decision to conduct visits at the level of Permanent Representatives to asses the first-hand information about the prevailing situation in the Jammu and Kashmir state on both sides of the Line of Control, he urged.
To a question, Dr. Shah also fully endorsed the demand to constitute a panel of international eminent personalities with a view to exploring legal, political, and diplomatic avenues for peaceful settlement of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute; Monitor, raise awareness, advocate, and highlight the Jammu and Kashmir dispute in its various dimensions in line with their respective mandates.
The exiled leader of the IIOJK entrepreneurs class emphatically said “we desire until and unless we go to the jugular and that is in the present world order the action of sanctions which is what America and Europe is putting on Russia without any unanimous resolution of the UN while as in our case, there is a clear cut resolution on Kashmir, not being implemented for the last 75 years”, he added.
Dr. Shah lambasted the world big bigs for their alleged double standard vis a vis treating the unresolved international disputes and said, “our freedom fighters are called terrorists while people are encouraged to go to Ukraine to fight Russia & are called freedom fighters”, he maintained.
Dr. Shah also sought immediate implementation of a grant of early relief to Kashmiris who are in the countries of OIC in the form of safeguarding them from any action by India if they do activism for Kashmir.
He also strongly demanded the implementation of the possibility of giving relief in form of citizenship or permanent residency to Kashmiris who are in need of the same.
He strongly suggested grant of jobs to Kashmiris in their respective economies of the OIC member countries, by giving a special dispensation to people from Indian who Illegally occupied Jammu and occupied Kashmir.
Dr. Mubeen Shah, one of the authors of the idea of the advent of cross-LoC bus and trade service in 2008, demanded a grant of financial relief providing scholarships to deserving students in various fields within their country as well as European and American universities, he urged.
He also supported the demand to allow Kashmiris to educate the people of these countries regarding the Kashmir issue from the right perspective – by facilitating the setting up of a KASHMIR HOUSE type of facility to promote the centuries an old Kashmiri culture, arts and crafts as well as the political aspects of Kashmir.
India, Dr. Shah said, was on a major propaganda offensive to convince the world that its brutal occupation & repression in Indian-occupied Kashmir are part of the epic battle against Muslim terrorism—an epic battle that was completely manufactured to justify war, occupation, and genocide”, he categorically said.
“We need to fight for this in all its manifestations and at every four”, he urged.
ICCPR (The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is a multilateral treaty adopted by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2200A (XXI) on 16 December 1966 and in force from 23 March 1976 in accordance with Article 49 of the covenant”, he underlined.
“The laws of PSA, UAPA, and Sedition laws applied by India need to be studied by this moot/meeting in regard to a contravention of the ICCPR, he concluded.
