Two lodge its remonstration against revocation of special status of Jammu and Kashmir; the Kashmir Council Europe (KCEU) will organize a protest camp in Brussels on August 4, 2024 (Sunday). The event would be held at 1 pm at the Europe Squire in front of Central Train Station in the European Headquarters Brussels. In a statement, Chairman KCEU Ali Raza Syed said that beside the one-day protest camp, he would also address gatherings at Pakistan’s embassies in Brussels and the Hauge and a webinar on August 4, 2024. These events are being organized to protest against Indian action of August 5, 2019 for revoking special status of Jammu and Kashmir. He said that Kashmiris who are oppressed since occupation of large parts of their land by the Indian forces on October 27, 1947, are facing more hardships and miseries in the post August 5, 2019’s Indian actions. The Chairman KCEU said that a large number of the political figures, human rights activists, socially active persons and journals are in jail and even Indian government removed necessary facilities to pro-Indian political leaders including Omar Abdullah & Mehbooba Mufti.

He said that brutalities particularly extra judicial killings by the Indian forces are constantly going on in the occupied lands of the state and Indian forces use black laws for such atrocities. In last five years, by changing the Jammu and Kashmir’s domicile’s rules, Indian government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi granted residence status of the state (Jammu and Kashmir) to hundreds of thousands of non-Kashmiris. Additionally, land banks of thousands of kanals have been indefinite and earmarked in different districts of the occupied Jammu and Kashmir to be allotted to the non-state subjects in the name of ‘investment and industry’. Ali Raza Syed said that situation of the occupied Jammu and Kashmir is that the state of Kashmir lost control over all of its higher educational institutions and university’s affairs including Jammu & Kashmir National Law University. Even the state of Jammu and Kashmir lost its control over Hindu’s shrines and the Indian competent authority has been empowered to take Suo Moto notice and   adopt measure in accordance with their desires.

Not only golf and other clubs but all forest lands and tourist development authorities are now directly controlled by New Delhi as the Indian authorities based in the country’s capital can issue, allot, lease or provide prime land and tourist facilities to anybody from India now. Chairman of KCEU said, it is also noted that all Kashmiri IAS officers have been posted on less important positions, while non local officials are running the administration from Jammu. He asked the International community including human rights organizations to take serious notice of the situation in occupied Kashmir and stop human rights violation in the state. Ali Raza Syed further said, rights to self determination of the people of Jammu and Kashmir should be given to them. So that they could freely exercise this right under the international supervision for the liberation and independent political future of their home land.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan