Let Pakistan
quit PoK
Sir,
Hurriyat contends
that there are three parties to the Kashmir
dispute, namely India, Pakistan and people of
Kashmir. It claims that being the sole
representative of Kashmiri people it has been
fighting for their right of self determination in
accordance with the UN resolutions. Similar is
the stand of Pakistani leaders including General
Musharraf. Pakistan says that it is extending
'moral and political' support to the Kashmiri
people for achieving the right of self
determination advocated by the United Nations 54
years ago.
On the upcoming
Vajpayee-Musharraf summit the Hurriyat as well as
Pakistan emphasis that Kashmir should be the core
issue. Meanwhile, Pakistan High Commissioner in
India has invited the Hurriyat leaders to the tea
party being thrown in honour of General
Musharraf. Excited over the invitation, the
Hurriyat leaders feel that this will provide them
an opportunity to have one to one talk with the
General. And to a certain extent they are right.
The UN resolution
on right of self determination, in three parts,
says "The Government of Pakistan has agreed
to withdraw it forces from the State of Jammu and
Kashmir. Pakistan will use its best endeavor to
secure the withdrawal of tribesmen and Pakistani
nationals from the State of Jammu and Kashmir and
that the territory so vacated, pending a final
solution, shall be administered by the local
authorities of Jammu and Kashmir"
It further says
"When the Commission shall have notified the
Government of India that the tribesmen and
Pakistani nationals have withdrawn and further
that the Pakistani forces are being withdrawn
from the State of Jammu and Kashmir, the
Government of India agrees to begin to withdraw
the bulk of its forces from the State in stages
to be agreed upon with the Commission.".
The resolution
further says "The Government of India and
Pakistan reaffirm their wish that the further
stature of the State of Jammu and Kashmir shall
be determined in accordance with the will of the
people up on acceptance of the truce
agreement."
The resolution
makes it explicitly clear that first it is
Pakistan that has to initiate its implementation.
The tea party invitation provides Hurriyat
leaders an ideal opportunity to exhort upon
General Musharraf to initiate the process of
implementing the UN resolution to which it is
committed. Hurriyat leaders should ask the
General to vacate the Pak-occupied Kashmir,
restore Gilgit, Hunza, Skardu and other areas
annexed by Pakistan illegally and reclaim and
restore the areas of Kashmir gifted to China on
which the Karrokaram road has been constructed.
People in the
Valley and outside have nicknamed the Hurriyat
conference as 'His Masters voice of Pakistan' It
is general belief that these leaders are at the
beck and call of their masters across the border.
The tea party invitation provides them an
appropriate occasion and environment to prove to
the people of the Valley and the rest of the
world that they are nor puppets of Pakistan and
they are not surviving on her cash doles. This
they can do by telling the General in loud and
clear voice that Pakistan is also un usurper of a
part of Kashmir.
Your etc..
J L Dhar
Shastri Nagar Jammu.
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