Exchange with the President of AJK, Raja Zulqarnain Khan, Regarding Recent Arrests in AJK

Dr sahib ,
It is interesting that you had asked question to the president of POK . In your message you mentioned that Raja sahib has delivered a lecture about the Taliban in front of Think tank .His speech about the taliban may be very good but their character practically is very different . Raja sahib office & residence in Muzaffarabad Jalaabad .It will be very interesting for you to know that just 5minute drive are the camps of Lashkar tabia i.e in a village Rara. These camps are organised & run by the ISI officials & the gov't land is provided to these Jehadies people there with the permission of the president & P.M of the POK . I , we know that it is now fashion to talk about the taliban but its very strnge that Think tank are silent when all these issues run in pakistan by the corrupt leaders . In the pOK , these elements has many , many camps & JKNSF, JKNAP has the clear stand that ISI has brought these so called jehaides for their interest & that is hust to prik the India for negotations about setelling the internal issues of Pakistan .
jammu Kashmir is not a territorial dispute in b/w India & pakistan , It is the matter of 12.5millions Kashmiri future & basic right of self-determination . JKNSF , JKNAP has a very long & clear struggle for the Independence of Kashmir from both the big Nuclear jiants of South asia . To get rid of Religious elemnts it will be very practical that the international powers should play their positive role & kashmir should be free in b/w India & pakistan .The puppet of pak regime has got the clear mandate from the Islamabad estabilishment to crush the JKNSF & JKNAP leadership , while using the negative tactis but JKNSF , JKNAP has proved all the time in past& Present that the struggle become more & more organised then before . JKNSF , JKNAP has the clear vision & has the complete plan which is very suitable for the south-Asia . Sooner or latter , the international players while feeling about their mistakes , they will come to the way what the JKNSF , JKNAP thinks about the Kashmùir .Becomeing an independent state in b/w India & pakistan ,there will be prosperity among the region , no poverity , no vicitimization on the religious bases, the very important thing is thet the people of South-Asia , either they are from pak , India or Kashmir get rid of the corrupt poltical leaders & it will help also for the entire peace .
About the arrest of JKNAP , JKNSF leadership , I, We hope that peoples like you will take the voices somewhere else also& it your hamantarian duty .
Hassan Bhai
Belgium



Subject: Exchange with the President of AJK, Raja Zulqarnain Khan, Regarding Recent Arrests in AJK


I was invited by a Washington Think Tank to a meeting where Raja saheb was the featured speaker. In the Q&A session, I raised the point about the arrest of JKNAP and JKNSF activists on July 21, who had held (bravely) counter-rallies regarding the "State Accession to Pakistan" day held on July 20th. I also asked him to comment on relocation of Taliban from Swat to AJK by the Pakistani intelligence agencies as claimed by JKNAP and JKNSF.

In response, the President said he was unaware of these arrests. He asked where these had occurred, and when I said it was in Rawalakot, he was taken aback and quickly focused on responding to the related inquiry about Taliban.

President Khan went into great length denouncing Taliban and everything that it stood for. He said blowing up themselves as suicide bombers is a "cash checque" for most poor families in the region, and if a family has 7 children and donate one to Taliban, it pays enough monetary rewards in return for the rest of the family to lead a good life. He said Amjad Kasab came from such a family in Pakistan. The President said Kashmiris have nothing to do with Taliban and do not accept their ideology or passion for violence.

Responding to another question about possible U.S. role, raised by a valley based Kashmiri (Muslim) journalist presently visiting Washington, Raja saheb said that he was against the intervention of Americans in the Kashmir dispute. America, he noted, has its own axe to grind, and the Kashmir issue must be resolved by India and Pakistan working together in spite of all challenges from both countries to scuttle such a dialogue. Every one agreed (including myself) that Kashmir will not prosper until India and Pakistan resolve all their differences and peace returns to the region. Raja saheb emphasized other issues, like the water rights, are also important to Pakistan, and said Pakistan was facing a severe water shortage as rivers flowing into Pakistan are discharging less water. (What he did not say is that the same issue exists with Ganges, Brahmaputra, and other rivers in India as the rise in population in the subcontinent, combined with global warming, are rapidly shrinking Himalayan glaciers affecting the entire region.)

The interchange lasted for an hour.

Regards,

Vijay Sazawal
www.kashmirforum.org

(Kashmir ..... a different viewpoint)