Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 22: The panelists at a seminar, organized here today by Jammu and Kashmir Unity Foundation (JKUF) on the topic “1947 – Pakistan Invasion Not Tribal Raid”, were of unanimous view that time has come when Government of India should launch a concerted effort to liberate Pak occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit and Baltistan.
All the speakers stated almost in resonance with each other that liberation of Pak occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit and Baltistan entails nullifying the occupation of the area by Pakistan. It also requires reversing the massive demographic invasion of that area from the Pakistani heartland, they added.
The speakers said that there is a strong urge amongst the original inhabitants of PoJK to seek liberation from Pakistani occupation. Their efforts and struggle requires an encouragement from the people of Jammu and Kashmir in India. It is also imperative that Govt of India extends unambiguous support diplomatically, politically and in any other way possible.
JKUF convenor Ajaat Jamwal said that month of October holds special significance in the history of Jammu and Kashmir State. “It was in this month that founder of the State Maharaja Gulab Singh took birth and it was in this month that Pakistani attack divided the State and its people,” he said.
Prof Shailender Singh Jamwal, HOD, Department of History, JU, said that the assumption that Maharaja Hari Singh wanted to carve out an Independent Jammu and Kashmir is false. “All the records of the developments around that time prove it without any doubt that he wanted to join India and did everything at this disposal at that time to ensure that,” he added and listed the instances in support of his opinion.
Dr Ajay Chrungoo, Chairman Panun Kashmir, said it’s now more than clear that all the invasions which Pakistan launched on Jammu and Kashmir, were designed in such a way to create confusion and pretension of local uprisings.
Septuagenarian Yuvraj Gupta, prominent social worker and a native of Kotli (Now in PoK), also said that neither the Maharaja nor the people of Jammu and Kashmir wanted to join Pakistan.
Er Ghulam Ali, secretary State BJP, said that Pakistan has been trying to justify its claim over the occupied territory of Jammu and Kashmir State by settling its citizens in PoJK, Gilgit and Baltistan and in the process is indulging in human rights violations of the citizens of the State.
JKNPP president and ex MLA Balwant Singh Mankotia, said that Pakistan has adopted terror as its State policy and it started with attack on Jammu and Kashmir on Oct 22, 1947.
Pushvinder Manhas conducted proceedings of the seminar, which was attended by prominent citizens and intellectuals.
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