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| Dissent protests in PoK leave Pakistani rulers, army red faced | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 24: People staging protest in Muzaffarabad on October 22 to mark the annexation of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) by Pakistani raiders (Kabalis) in 1947 has left the Pakistan government and its Army red faced. According to the media reports, scores of people staged massive protest in the capital city of PoK two days ago against their territory being under the illegal control of Pakistan for the past more than 70 years.
It was on October 22, 1947 when Pakistani raiders entered into PoK and annexed the region. After taking control of the PoK these raiders indulged in loot, arson and killings, from PoK they started marching towards Baramulla, 170 kilometers from Muzaffarabad. The last Dogra ruler of the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir, Maharaja Hari Singh approached New Delhi and sought the help of Indian Army to save the princely state from the raiders. All the formalities of J&K's accession with the Union of India were finalized from October 22 to October 27 which paved the way for Indian Army to land in Kashmir and send the Pak raiders packing.
These Kabalis had reached upto Baramulla in North Kashmir and were involved in loot and killings when the Indian Army arrived. They were sent back and could have also been removed from the PoK but the then Indian Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru stopped the Indian Army from marching ahead.
The protesters, who had assembled in Muzaffarabad, said, "Pakistan has been treating PoK as its colony since 1947 and the people who are ruling them are the stooges of the rulers sitting in Islamabad."
An analyst while talking to Early Times said, "The voices of dissent becoming shriller in PoK are a message to Pakistani rulers that people are fed up of their policies and discrimination being meted out to them. They want to break the shackles and get separated."
He said, "These protests should also serve as an eye opener for the Pakistani stooges present in Jammu & Kashmir. These stooges have been misleading the people of Kashmir for the past seventy years."
An observer said that scars of the devastation which the Pak raiders caused in Baramulla are still visible in the area. "People have heard the stories of Pak raiders from their elders, who have passed these to their younger generations and it is one of the reasons that terrorists and seperatists have failed to sell their narrative in this northern district. Another factor which has kept the people of Baramulla district indifferent towards Pakistan are the losses they have suffered due to the intensive Pak shelling which they have witnessed during the past 30 years," he added. |
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