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| For Farooq Abdullah, PoK is 'Azad Kashmir' | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 2: For National Conference, that has ruled most of the times in Jammu and Kashmir, other part of Kashmir under the occupation of Pakistan is "Azad Kashmir".
NC president and former J&K Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah on Sunday said that this region would never be a part of Pakistan. "India can't take another part, which is Azad Kashmir. Azad Kashmir will always remain with Pakistan," he told the media in Baramulla.
He said if his party comes to power in the coming assembly elections, he will fight for autonomy and "get it at any cost."
He claimed that the NC was fighting for rights of people. "Autonomy is our right and New Delhi can't reject it. This part of Kashmir is ours while Azad Kashmir's will remain with Pakistan. However, we want a friendship between India and Pakistan," he added.
This is not for the first time when the NC called Pakistan occupied Kashmir as "Azad Kashmir". Last year on December 5, when birth anniversary of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah was observed, there was a banner, a picture of which lies with Early Times, which reads, "Sheikh Sahib had become a legendary figure in his own lifetime and it can't be gainsaid that he was the central figure in Kashmir politics for over 50 years: Sardar Abdul Qayum Khan, former President of Azad Kashmir."
On that occasion, the NC leaders and supporters had also raised slogans that Kashmiris should decide their future. "This is our Kashmir only we should decide its future," they had shouted. Farooq Abdullah had earlier sparked a major controversy when he offered support to the Hurriyat leadership asking them to carry forward the "(freedom) movement". Abdullah even asked his party workers not to give up their allegiance to "this movement."
"I am telling Hurriyat not to get divided. We stand with you (Hurriyat) and not against you. Be united and take this (freedom) movement forward. We are with you," Abdullah had said.
Meanwhile, Farooq Abdullah on Sunday said that Sajad Lone's father Abdul Gani Lone was responsible for bringing gun to Kashmir.
"When my government was dismissed by Jagmohan, his (Sajad's) father visited me and told he is going to Pakistan and will bring gun to Kashmir. I requested him not to do so as it will only create destruction. But he went ahead and brought the gun. Later he apologized to me," Farooq said.
"I know Sajad Lone blames me and my party, but I won't say anything. Otherwise I know when his father told me that he will go to Pakistan and will
pick up the gun," said the NC president. "I pleaded before him that don't introduce gun culture here. I told him it will take lives of our youngsters and honour of our daughters. When he returned back he accepted it was his mistake."
Farooq said that he is not power hungry and that his party's support to PDP for government formation was for safeguarding the identity of Jammu and Kashmir.
He urged governments of India and Pakistan to imitate the spirit of Kartarpur Corridor in the state of Jammu and Kashmir by opening all the routes along the Line of Control (LoC) and international border that have become vestigial post partition.
"I have urged both the governments to open the traditional routes between the two countries," he said, and added that this initiative will not only help boost the economic activities on both sides of the border besides, but it will also help rekindle the flame of friendship between India and Pakistan. |
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