WASHINGTON: Dr Imtiaz Khan, Professor at George Washington University Medical Center, has said that Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir is facing existential threat due to criminal negligence of world powers.
Dr Imtiaz Khan in an interview said that during his recent visit to IIOJK when he landed in Srinagar, it had the appearance of Hindu holy city. He said, hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims are being pumped in under the pretext of visiting newly discovered religious shrines. “They are being provided facilities for extended stays with the goal of finally settling them in Kashmir.
Huge swaths of land are being acquired and confiscated from the local Muslim population to accommodate the settlers,” he said. Dr Imtiaz Khan said fanatic Hindus from India for the last 4 years have been provided domicile certificates and the process is being proceeded with high exigency. He said the goal is to change the demographic character of the area and transform it to a Hindu majority region.
“Ultimate plan is to bring in Hindu government and approach the international community or UN for conducting a plebiscite and with the transformation of population the outcome of this exercise will be in their favor,” he said. When asked by an interviewer of Saalamedia TV about a recent incident of the forced entry of the Indian occupation forces into a mosque where at gunpoint the worshippers were made to chant slogans for Hindu god, he said, “Currently there is a religious persecution going on in occupied Jammu and Kashmir and this incident does not come as a surprise.”
Dr Khan added that it gives shivers down his spine to state that occupied Jammu and Kashmir is facing an existential threat and criminal negligence of world powers will facilitate the execution of this evil design. He said, everyday killings, molestation of women, stealing of valuables by occupation forces is continuing with impunity. In the pre-Modi era they used to target the youth who were taken to army camps, murdered and their dead bodies thrown outside their homes. With the dawn of the Modi era, he added, the bodies are disposed off in the army camps and the loved ones are not provided an opportunity to perform the last rites.
“In one such incident in the valley a practicing dentist was murdered by the occupation forces and in response to intense protests the remains were handed over to the family. The amount of repression and fear instilled into the people can be gauged by the fact that the father of the deceased profusely thanked the Indian government’s administrator of occupied Kashmir. There was no demand for inquiry into this horrendous act as the person felt that he is luckier than a number of others who don’t have the opportunity to have the last glimpse of their loved ones,” he said.
Lot can be and needs to be done to neutralize this catastrophic scenario. It is evident that notwithstanding these horrific measures by the Indian government, the freedom-loving population of Kashmir will never surrender.
However, a region which is surrounded by three nuclear powers will become highly unstable and it is not far-fetched to presume that it will lead to a nuclear catastrophe. International community should be made aware about the potential impending cataclysm that will result due to non-resolution of the Kashmir dispute, Dr Khan warned.
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