Janjivan Bureau
New Delhi: The BJP and congress said Pakistan always accuses India of human rights violations in Kashmir and now it is time for India to put these violations in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) in focus for the entire world to see.Responding to residents of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) demanding freedom from Pakistan by raising pro-India slogans, Congress Party said Pakistan has been exposed for keeping some parts of Kashmir forcibly with itself and also fanning rumours about the people of Jammu and Kashmir not wanting to be in India.
“Pakistan always accuses India of human rights violations in our part of Kashmir. This is an opportunity for India to draw the attention not only of the Government of Pakistan, but of the international community, to the repression and the suppression of the people’s aspirations in Pakistan occupied Kashmir and in Gilgit Baltistan,” senior BJP leader and former external affairs minister Yashwant Sinha said.
“This is a known fact that people in Pakistan occupied Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan are very very unhappy. The videos demonstrate clearly that unhappiness. They have come into media attention recently but the unhappiness is very old,” he added.
“There is a part of Jammu and Kashmir that the Pakistan has forcibly kept with itself which is the disputed part of Jammu and Kashmir, which should actually be a part of India. And, Pakistan is always is trying to spread this rumour that the people in J and K, they don’t want to be with India, but they want to be with Pakistan. It is great lie, it constantly gets hammered whenever there are rebellions in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, which they call is a ‘Azad Kashmir’,” Dikshit told .
“I would say that rather than the UN focusing its energy on Jammu and Kashmir, it should focus on people and its representatives and that part of Kashmir which is under Pakistan. And the real truth that no Kashmiri wants to stay with Pakistan will come out in that search,” he added.
Dikshit further said that Islamabad has always promoted terror in Jammu and Kashmir, and therefore, the voices of the people are being suppressed.
The Kashmir issue has bedeviled Indo-Pakistan ties for the past 68 years.
People in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) are demanding a merger with India, thus weakening Islamabad’s Kashmir rhetoric against India at various fora.