120 Whither Kashmir? (Part II) - Islamabad Policy Research Institute

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insecurity and underdevelopment.
Dr Zafar Nawaz Jaspal Weekly Pulse (Islamabad), February 5, 2010.
http://www.weeklypulse.org/pulse/article/4859.html
CALL TO HOLD PLEBISCITE IN KASHMIR
Thousands of people on Friday held rallies in the City against the Indian
occupation of Jammu and Kashmir, calling for a plebiscite to give the
right to self-determination to Kashmiris under the UN resolutions that
had been awaiting implementation for the last six decades.
All noted religious parties took out rallies in connection with the
Kashmir Day and held demonstrations and conferences to highlight the
Kashmir issue and the unabated atrocities in the occupied territory by the
Indian army which had so far killed over 100,000 Kashmiris, maimed a
larger number of people in torture cells, raped women and kept
thousands of Muslim youth in secret detention centres.
Addressing to the rallies and conferences, political and religious
leaders criticised India for constantly undermining Pakistan,
dismembering the country and blocking its rivers besides wreaking havoc
on Pakistani civilians in from of terrorism and bomb blasts. They said the
dream peace in South Asia would remain elusive without freedom of
Kashmir. The leaders also condemned the US courts for convicting Dr
Aafia Siddiqui without sufficient evidence.
Big rallies were taken out by the banned Jamaatud Dawah and
Jamaat-e-Islami, while demonstrations were also held by the Jammu
Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), JUP, Hizbut Tahrir, Markazi Jamiat
Ahle Hadith, Jamiat Mashaikh, Awami National Party (ANP), Sunni
Tehrik and others. Addressing the rally, which marched from Nasir Bagh
to the Punjab Assembly, JD ameer Hafiz Saeed said Kashmir could turn
the whole world into a ball of fire since Pakistan and India, the nuclear
neighbours, had already fought four wars on it. He said with the US
probable exit from Afghanistan, the Indian dream of becoming the
regional super power had begun crashing and it that’s why it was trying
to hold fake ‘Peace Dialogue’. He asid Indian Interior Minister
Chidambaram had said there was need of dialogue, admitting that Indian
elements could have been involved in Mumbai attacks.
Hafiz Saeed said he dialogue with India should be held after it
pulled out its army from Kashmir and release the water of Pakistani
rivers. He said the dialogue should include every contentious issue