The All-parties Conference held here on Sunday declared that “Pakistan without Kashmir is incomplete.”
| In 1947, Pakistan included East Bengal and parts of other British Indian states (now Bangladesh). I would think that Pakistan is incomplete without its eastern part. |
A resolution adopted at the APC said that peace could not return to the subcontinent unless and until a plebiscite was held as per the UN resolution on the future of the Kashmir territory.
| That plebiscite resolution calls for Pakistan to withdraw all its forces and irregulars from Kashmir, to be replaced by Indian troops prior to a plebiscite on joining either Pakistan or India. Will Pakistan remove its Punjabi settlers and troops? |
The APC was organised by the Jamaat-i-Islami at its office, Idara Noor-i-Haq.
The resolution recalled that Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah had termed Kashmir “jugular vein of Pakistan”, adding that the agenda of Pakistan Movement would remain unachieved until the accession of Kashmir to Pakistan.
| It is all really about the headwaters of the rivers. India controls the water and Pakistan just hates that. |
Leaders of Jamaat-i-Islami, Pakistan PeopleÂ’s Party, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and other parties addressed the conference and deplored the reign of terror let loose by the Indian forces in the occupied Jammu and Kashmir over the past six decades.
| There was terror in the 60s when the Beatles stayed in Kashmir? Really? This all started in 1987 when the Afghan jihad was wound down and Pakistan redirected the jihadis towards Kashmir. |
The resolution said that the government of Pakistan also could not absolve itself of its responsibilities just by observing solidarity day with Kashmiris on Feb 5 every year. It asked the rulers to desist from betraying Kashmiris in the name of confidence building measures (CBMs).
The conference, presided over by JI Naib Amir Prof Ghafoor Ahmad, resolved to organise a massive rally on Feb 5 to express solidarity with Kashmiri people.
Speaking at the moot, he condemned Gen Pervez MusharrafÂ’s offers and incentives to India on the Kashmir issue, reminding him that India had constantly been defying the UN resolutions on Kashmir and continuing with its policy of suppressing the movement by Kashmiri people. Thousands of people were killed and countless rendered disabled in the Indian military actions in the occupied territory, he pointed out.
Prof N.D. Khan of the PPP was of the view that a fair settlement of Kashmir dispute was possible only when it was tackled by a democratic government in Pakistan, maintaining that dictatorship was not capable to ensure an amicable solution.
Saleem Zia of PML-N held the British rulers responsible for the Kashmir problem. Had the issue been tackled with good intentions and wisdom, the situation would not have been what it was today.
| Actually were it not for some British Officers, none of Kashmir would be in Pakistani hands today |
Mohammad Hussain Mehanti of the JI condemned that Kashmiri Mujahideen had been dubbed as terrorists by the United States and its allies after the 9/11 tragedy. Siddique Rathor, Yousuf Mastikhan, Mir Nawaz Marwat, Khan Mohammad Baloch, Afzal Sardar and Basharat Mirza also spoke at the conference.| Legally, Jammu and Kashmir is Indian since it was acceded to the Dominion of Indian by its ruler in 1947 as per the Indian Independence Act of the United Kingdom. The instrument of accession was signed by Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India and cousin to the British Queen. Before his assassination by the IRA in 1979, Mountbattn said that had he known that Jinnah was dying of TB, he would have delayed partition. Without Jinnah around, Pakistan would probably not have been created and millions of lives would have been saved. |
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