‘India’s new domicile law part of conspiracy to turn Muslim-majority IOK into minority’

AJK president denounces Modi government’s attempts to change Occupied Kashmir's demography

MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan has spurned the new domicile rules imposed by the Modi government with the motives to change the demography of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ&K).

"The Indian government must abandon its policy to make Kashmir its colony, and resolve the Kashmir issue in accordance with the wishes and aspirations of the Kashmiri people in the light of the UN Security Council resolutions," he said.

In a video message, President Masood condemned the Indian government for imposing new domicile law, saying that this was a part of the well-hatched conspiracy of the Indian rulers designed to turn the Muslim majority of the occupied territory into a minority and an abortive attempt to suppress the struggle of Kashmiri people for the realisation of their inalienable right to self-determination.

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He said that another motive behind the new domicile law is to deprive the Kashmiri people of their right of job and to dole out favours to the Hindu fanatic activists of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

India's BJP regime, he said, had carried out the night ambush on the rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir when the whole world is busy in combating the novel coronavirus, and the besieged and oppressed people of Kashmiri itself are affected by the global pandemic as well as the brutalities of the Indian Army.

While describing the domicile law as a conspiracy of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the RSS to snatch the lands of Kashmiri people, the AJK president said that from the very first day, India has been toeing the policy to make Kashmir its colony and to enslave the Kashmiri people. However, he maintained that Kashmiris have never accepted the policy and would also never surrender to India.

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Regretting the apathy of the international community over the Indian repression, he said that the COVID-19 pandemic now the world is faced with, is the divine punishment for silence over injustice like brutalities against the Kashmiri people. "It is time for the United Nations to move forward, and fulfil its responsibilities to prevent Indian atrocities and human rights trampling and to repeal black laws in Occupied Kashmir."

The people of the Himalayan territory are well aware that the repressive means like domicile law were designed to render the Kashmiri people homeless in their own homeland and to settle the Indian citizens there, he added.

"Now, India itself is facing the impacts of countrywide lockdown which it had started in Kashmir in August last year."

President Masood also called upon the UN Security Council, UN Secretary-General António Guterres, the UN Human Rights Council and the International Committee of Red Cross to take notice of the Indian attempts of changing demography of Occupied Kashmir, as such moves by India negate the UN resolutions and violate Geneva Convention and other international law.