Two-nation theory still valid in context of Kashmir

Masood says Indian forces in occupied Kashmir chastising people for being Muslims

MIRPUR: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Masood Khan said on Saturday that the two-nation theory was as important today as it was in 1947 in context of the unsettled issue of Jammu and Kashmir.

Addressing a conference to celebrate works and contribution of Mujaddid Alf Sani, organised by Alami Idara Tanzeemul Islam on Saturday, he said that Mujadid Alf Sani had led the first wave of Islamic renaissance in South Asia and thus laid the foundation for the two-nation theory.



Masood said that people of Jammu and Kashmir were being punished by India because of their adherence to two-nation theory. In 1947-48, some 250,000 Muslims were killed in Jammu at the best of the Mahrajah of Kashmir, and with the collusion of RSS extremists, the Indian government led by Pandit Nehru and the Viceroy of India. Since then, the president said, the Indian occupation forces in the occupied Kashmir have never stopped killing and torturing Kashmiris. “They are being chastised for being Muslims,” he said.

The occupier has been giving permanent residence to non-Kashmiri people to change the demographics of the region.



Masood Khan said that Indian Hindu supremacists, mainly comprising Brahmans, too believed in a two-nation theory, but without admitting it publicly. Their insidious agenda was to subjugate Muslims in India, kill them in Kashmir, and suppress the rising Muslim nations in the neighborhood, especially Pakistan.

India’s bias against Muslims is evident from the fact that it is backing the Myanmar government killing Rohinga Muslims and it has closed its border to the Rohinga refugees fleeing murderous rampage in Myanmar.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 5^th, 2017.