Kashmir Needs Urgent Attention
By:  Dr. Maqsood Jafri

Islamabad: ( Press Reporter).  The former adviser to the Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir Dr. Maqsood Jafri while addressing the members of Central Executive Committee of Kashmir Think Tank strongly criticized the atrocities being perpetrated on the defenseless  Kashmiris  by the Indian  military and para military forces. He appealed to the lovers of democracy and human rights to raise voice again the Indian aggression on Kashmiris and observe this October 27,2013  as a Black Day world wide.  He said it was on this day, when the Indian forces landed on the soil of Kashmir on a false plea of Indian accession to Kashmir. Dr. Maqsood Jafri quoted eminent contemporary British historian Elaister Lamb, the author of  "Kashmir Legacy", who claimed that there was no record or proof that the mahraja of Kashmir signed any document of accession of Kashmir to India.To date, Kashmir is burning and bleeding. The genocide of the Kashmiris must be immediately stopped and kashmiris be freed from the Indian clutches; asserted Dr. Maqsood Jafri. He in his speech asserted that on July 19, 1947,  All Jummu and Kashmir Muslim Conference, the representative political party of the Muslim majority, unanimously at the residence of Sardar Ibrahim Khan passed the resolution of the accession of Kashmir to Pakistan. In the meeting of the Princely States as well, it was decided that the majority Muslim states would be the part of Pakistan and no ruler would opt for India or Pakistan with out the consent of the people of that state. Kashmir being a state of dominant Muslim majority and having geographical contiguity with the border of Pakistan is naturally the integral part of Pakistan. Dr. Maqsood Jafri asked the General Secretary of the UN to intervene and pressurize India to implement the UN resolutions passed by the Security Council that grant the right to self- determination and fair plebiscite to the Kashmiris. He further emphasized on the need of opening chapters and and establishing Kashmir Desks in the Pakistani embassies.