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| I head entire Kashmir: Attique Khan |
| 2006-08-18 |
| I'm speechless. The Indian Kashmiri government was elected. This guy was appointed by Perv. Prime Minister of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir Attique Khan says he is the Prime Minister of the entire State of Jammu and Kashmir, the Dawn reported on Thursday. Mr. Khan, who took charge after the recent elections, said that though he exercised his authority only in one part of the State, he was the Prime Minister of "aar paar (this side and that)". "Whether I can do anything for them or not, every citizen of the entire State of Kashmir has the right to consider me his prime minister," the paper quoted him as saying at a reception hosted by the former chairman of the United Jihad Council, Tanveerul Islam. Mr. Islam reportedly runs a non-Governmental organisation for the families of those killed waging "jihad" against India in Kashmir. He paid tributes to them and asked India to let Kashmiris live according to their free will. Sooner or later New Delhi would have to give in to the legitimate demands of Kashmiris, the newspaper reported him as saying. He expressed support for the cross-Line of Control trade, and said people should be able to move freely between the two sides of divided Kashmir. Mr. Khan's father, Sardar Qayyum Khan, who is the "life patron" of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference, has said Pakistan-based militant training camps were wound up before 9/11. The Daily Times reported the senior Khan as telling journalists in Washington (where he went for medical treatment) that militancy in Kashmir would continue until there was progress on the political front. Mr. Khan "regretted attempts made in some quarters to play down the principle of self-determination," which was central to the Kashmir struggle, and dismissed as absurd the idea of "self-governance." While this was an idea floated by President Pervez Musharraf, the PoK leader reportedly said Pakistan had not changed its position on Kashmir. Mr. Khan said any attempt to bypass Kashmiris would fail. They were not a herd of sheep that could be divided between one or another political party. |
| Posted by:john |
| #1 "Tremble at the sight of my turban! And my heavily armed and extremely pious henchmen!" |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-08-18 08:35 |