Demands of the people of Pakistani Occupied Jammu and Kashmir

 

United Kashmir People's National Party(UKPNP)

Demands of the people of Pakistani Occupied Jammu and Kashmir

Date: 13 May 2024

I take this opportunity to express my sincere sentiments in the prevailing

situation in the Pakistani Administered Jammu and Kashmir.

The people of this region have been denied their fundamental human rights

for many decades. Not only have we endured injustice, inequality and

oppression, but our natural resources have been systematically plundered.

This struggle of the Awami Action Committee was sincere and peaceful, it

wanted to promote and strengthen relations between Muzaffarabad and

Islamabad by ironing out those irritants that could be exploited by those

who wish to have instability in this strategic and disputed region.

The violence that erupted could have been avoided. We have always

opposed politics of violence, extremism, and intolerance and strongly

disapprove of tragic incidents that have taken place. All that could have

been avoided if the authorities had not sent Punjab Constabulary and

Frontier Constabulary.

These para-military forces of Pakistan are notorious for their inhuman

actions and ruthless behaviour. Their presence and actions did what petrol

does to the fire.

There are credible reports that para-military forces of Pakistan have been

called in again, and the purpose appears to be is to crush this movement

of the people.

We wish to point out that we fully endorse the peaceful struggle of the

Awami Action Committee and will support them because their struggle is

pro-people and pro-peace.

This exploitation, plundering and denial of fundamental rights to the people

of so-called Azad Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan must not continue, and we

will not allow this to continue.

Also, we want to condemn the fake propaganda of some Pakistani

politicians, secret agencies, and media that the Awami Action Committee is

financed by foreign agencies.

We sincerely and strongly declare that this movement has no links with:

• India

• Taliban

• PTI

• Baloch Liberation Army or

• Jewish lobby

This Pakistani strategy of making allegations has lost its currency. No one

will believe this because the Pakistani agencies have accused nearly all the

politicians who disagreed with the establishment, including Madam Fatima

Jinnah, Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif, Wali Khan, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and

many more.

We demand that:

1. There must be a national grid in so-called Azad Kashmir. All the

electricity we produce should go there so that we can use our

electricity in accordance with our needs and not let our people suffer

at the mercy of WAPDA, a Pakistani institution, known as a white

elephant.

2. Any surplus electricity we have could be sold to Pakistan.

3. We must have control of our resources.

4. We must have control of water resources, and dams constructed

inside the territory of Azad Kashmir.

5. Act 74, which was unilaterally imposed upon us must be revoked, so

that we can manage our affairs in accordance with requirements and

priorities.

6. Both regions of Jammu and Kashmir State, namely Gilgit Baltistan

and the so-called Azad Kashmir must be merged as one

administrative unit so that we can have cordial relations with

Pakistan.

7. In addition to the above, we demand that there must be a National

Bank of Jammu and Kashmir so that we can manage our economy by

relying on our foreign exchange and other resources available to us,

instead of being controlled by Pakistan in every aspect of our social,

political, and economic life.

8. There are millions of Azad Kashmiri people working abroad and

Pakistan benefits from their foreign exchange, and sadly, Pakistan is

not prepared to build an airport for the comfort of these people.

9. We must have control of various properties belonging to the State of

Jammu and Kashmir, which are situated in Pakistan and Pakistan has

taken 100% profit of those properties. END

1/ Dr Shabir Choudhry, President of Foreign Affairs Committee, UKPNP

Email: drshabirchoudhry@gmail.com Cell no: 07790942471

2/ Usman Kayani, former President UKPNP, British Zone.

Email: usman1012@yahoo.com. Cell no: 07506 700764.