KAC terms Yasin Malik’s call as symbol of unity

Washington, June 22, 2014 (PPI-OT): The Kashmiri American Council (KAC) has extended its full support to the call given by the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman, Mohammad Yasin Malik, to celebrate June 23 as a symbol of their unity to resist India’s illegal and inhuman occupation.

The KAC in a statement issued in Washington strongly condemned the move by RSS and BJP to observe June 23, 2014 (which happens to be death anniversary of Mr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, the founder of Jan Sangh) as a day for integration of Jammu and Kashmir with India.

It must be noted that since the current government came to power they are planning to execute their sinister design to accommodate “refugees” as the “state subjects” so that demographics can be changed and Muslim majority status compromised.
This is flagrant violation of international law and United Nation Security Council resolutions that can have serious repercussions in highly unstable region of South Asia, it added.

It said that the KAC believed that there should not be any condition from any party except the commitment to peaceful negotiations. Mr. Arun Jaitly, the Defense Minister of India’s statement was unfortunate when he said that Kashmir dispute has to be resolved within the Indian constitution.

The KAC suggests that Jaitly needed to listen to his mentor, Atal Behari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister of India who wanted the Kashmir dispute to be resolved within the ambit of humanity and not within the parameters of the Indian constitution.

“KAC’s stand is that ‘Autonomy’ and ‘Article 370’ are non-issues for the people of Kashmir. All Constitutions of the world are subject to amendments and Indian Constitution is no exception. If not now, in the foreseeable future, this provision can be deleted in the Constitution and the move will not even need a debate in the Indian parliament”, it maintained.

The KAC believed that Kashmir was a political problem and needed a political solution. The talks must be tripartite because the dispute primarily involves three parties – India, Pakistan and the people of Kashmir.

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