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Geneva [Switzerland]/ Muzaffarabad [PoK]December 20 (ANI): Exiled PoK political leader Shaukat Ali Kashmiri has launched a scathing attack on the Pakistani leadership’s discriminatory attitude towards the people of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
The criticism from Shaukat Kashmir, head of the United Kashmir People’s National Party, came as massive anti-Pakistan demonstrations swept through the illegally occupied region.
The protests came after Pakistani Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif recently intimidated PoK PM Tanveer Ilyas at a public rally. When Shehbaz tried to correct his facts, Shehbaz’s guards also abused him.
Shehbaz Sharif started operations in PoK for additional capacity at the already controversial Mangla Dam. While emphasizing that the Pakistani government has never supported the rights of the people of PoK, Kashmir said the current arrangement is particularly discriminatory because different political parties run PoK affairs.
“Tanveer Ilyas is a member of the party led by Imran Khan and also the nominee of Imran Khan. So now the government is against PTI, in Pakistan there is uncertainty and anxiety because of the economic and economic instability in Pakistan. The situation of concern is political. So on the periphery, a person who belongs to an occupied area has no constitutional power, how can he fight,” Shawkat Ali said.
People in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir have repeatedly accused Islamabad of exploiting their resources and failing to meet their needs. Locals say the Mangla Dam, which primarily serves the people of PoK by meeting their electricity and irrigation needs, was built at the expense of their displacement.
“Since 1948, the Pakistani government has been exploiting natural resources in exchange for their unemployment and exile, and most of the people are facing very hardship because they have no medical facilities. Even the prime minister said we have no medical facilities and no secrets. Throughout Pakistan, not only in PoK, freedom of speech is compromised when the constitution does not grant it. The state imposes religious norms, which is also debatable. Pakistan as a state uses religion as a tool,” said Kashmiri.
Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, which Pakistan claims as an autonomous region, has struggled for seven years to secure even basic rights.
Under the PoK framework, PoK has its own prime minister, president and supreme court, but the region is directly controlled by Islamabad through the Kashmir Council, which is chaired by the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
However, critics say Islamabad has appointed its “borrowed officials” in the form of the IG police, chief secretary and finance minister to maintain its dominance in the region. (Arnie)
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