Sunday, August 11, 2013
Thursday, July 4, 2013
AJK INTERIM ACT 1974 AND HUMAN RIGHTS,BY NADEEM
My submissions are as under: In 2010 the 18th Constitutional Amendment on Federation-Provinces Relations legislative and administrative responsibilities of the provinces in Pakistan, enables civil society of AJK to speak and proposed amendment’s in the AJK interim Act 0f 1974.Various NGO`S come forward and suggest their amendment’s to the AJK act 1974.
AJK interim Act 1974, is a Pakistan`s colonial design for the people of Azad Kashmir (POK) to deprive them from the their fundamental rights and resources. The scope and aim of the Act is to protect the defacto occupational interests of military and civil establishment of Pakistan. The main aim of this legal frame work is to well control to the indigenous thoughts and struggle which represent the real interests of the people for their demand of national independence from Pakistan.
The Kashmir council, ministry of Kashmir affairs to force the people of Azad Kashmir to believing Kashmir state accession to Pakistan, It is a crime if any Kashmir speaks, write against the occupied military of Pakistan and its agencies. These agencies are so powerful and above the preventive law in AJK.
There is very low chances that people will empower through the amendments in AJK interim act 1974.Beacuse its design to support the Pakistan military occupation in AJK.There is no way to make military establishment accountable via this act AJK judiciary and the legislature prove that they are the subservient of the GCO Muree and Islamabad. If we check progress of prosperity of life in AJK then its fail to prove that its progress is improving in any field of daily life. Injustice, corruption, unemployment, health, merit etc,its fail to achieve any substantial progress. The budget amount of AJK (nearly 56 Arab in Pak Rupee) is les then the amount spending CDA Islamabad Pakistan, the population of AJK is less than the Rawalpindi division of Pakistan. So the indigenous people those are standing to liberate the AJK,GB out rightly rejected the Act 1974.They want liberation (Azadi) and withdrawal of Pakistan army (weapons) from the territory of Kashmir .So there is no chance to enhance and propose any amendments which empower and protect the fundamental rights of the state subject holders of Kashmir .
Because Pakistan is an author of this defacto document since 1966 to 2012.The various articles in Act 1974 are contrary to the fundamental human rights. As an estimate Government of Pakistan (WAPDA) owes around 255 billion rupees of profit of Mangla Dam to AJK since 1966. To understand the jurisprudence of the unlimited freedom of civil liberties and how people defend and protect their indigenous national and international fundamental rights.
LAWS ENACTED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF AJ&K
1 1966 The AJ&K Grant of Khalsa Wastc Land as Shamlat Deh Act, 1966. (Act I of 1966)
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2009 The AJ&K Mangla Dam Housing Authority Act, 2009 (Act I of 2009)
2-Kashmiris are not a part of any UN resolutions and any bilateral Shimla Agreement which turn Kashmir a bilateral territorial dispute between India and Pakistan. Around 28 UN resolutions including the Shimla Agreement 2 July 1972 (between Z.A Bhutto and Indra Gandhi)and Elan-E-Lahore in 1992 (between A.B.Bajpi and Nwaz Sharief).India Pakistan are free to decide regarding Kashmiris in the name of regional peace and security.
3--The amendments (1-20) in the constitution of Pakistan were taken place during the struggle of the people of Pakistan past sixty years many lost their precious life during this struggle for the rule of law. Articles from 8-28 in the constitution of 1973 of Islamic republic of Pakistan cover the human rights. Where is any safeguard in AJK for the protection of fundamental rights?
4- Reaching up to the 18th - 20th amendments there was a Charter of Democracy on February 21, 2010 The 36 points Charter of Democracy signed by Benazir Bhutto(late) and Nawaz Sharif on May 14, 2006 in London UK. Remember Gen. Musharaf forced exile both former Prime ministers of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif (Now the prime minister of Pakistan)
5-Magna Carta also called Magna Carta Libertatum or The Great Charter of the Liberties of England, originally issued in Latin on 15 June 1215.
6- THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY PROCLAIMS THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
On 10 December 1948 as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.
7-The European Convention on Human Rights
The Governments signatory hereto, being Members of the Council of Europe,
Considering the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 10 December 1948.
COUNCIL OF EUROPE, the European Convention on Human Rights
ROME 4 November 1950,
And its Five Protocols,
PARIS 20 March 1952,
STRASBOURG 6 May 1963,
STRASBOURG 6 May 1963,
STRASBOURG 16 September 1963,
STRASBOURG 20 January 1966.
To adopt and enhance a broader concept of human rights and accepting the fundamental right of independence and Kashmiris control of their own affairs and quash the status quo which maintain by the Pakistan and India and their proxies , subservient in all parts of divided occupied Kashmir .To accept the fundamental right to live as an independent country side by side with their neighbors peacefully without the presences of military and nuclear weapons .To subscribe broader approach is in a larger interest of Pakistan, India , Kashmir and the world at large. People of the region need a food, shelter, health and basic necessities of life. United, Independent, and socialist Kashmir is a best alternative solution for Kashmiris.
Monday, June 17, 2013
Justice for Arif Shahid Campaign's:South Asian Peoples Forum arranged a public meeting in Bradford UK.R-L:Cheif Guest Mumutaz Alam Gilani Ex.Human rights minister Pakistan Presided by Prof.Nazir Tabussum, Pervez Fateh .Stage conducted by Khalid Saeed Qurashi. Prof.Nazir Nazish, Mahmood Kashmiri,,Nadeem Aslam,Mr.Singh (CPI),Azmat Khan,and others
جسٹس فار عارف شاھد کے لیے ساوتھ ایشین پیپلز فورم کی بریڈفورڈ میں منعقدہ تقریب سے مختلف سیاسی اور سماجی تنظیموں کے راہنما راہنما خطاب کر رھے ھیں۔
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http://www.jammukashmir.tv/player/Siyasat/Murder-of-Arif-Shahid-Siyasat-with-Shamas-
Murder of Arif Shahid - Siyasat with Shamas
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Siyasat in Pahari with Shams Rehman guests include ali adalat Nadeem Aslam and Sardar Aftab discussing the murder of Arif Shahid, chairperson of All Parties National Alliance in Rawalpindi by un identified gunmen on 13th May 2013
http://www.jammukashmir.tv/player/Siyasat/Murder-of-Arif-Shahid-Siyasat-with-Shamas-.html
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
PAKISTAN: Another human rights defender was allegedly extrajudicially killed by the state intelligence agency
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Mr. Sardar Arif Shahid
Urgent Appeal Case : The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a human rights defender and writer from the Pakistani part of Kashmir, Sardar Arif Shahid, was gunned down in front of his house in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. Before his murder he has been arrested and then released at his native town when he visited the area along with some Kashmiri non Muslim visitors from the Jammu part of Indian Kashmir. His passport was confiscated and his name was put on the exit control list in 2009. The High Court has gave him relief in December 2012. CASE NARRATIVE:
Mr. Sardar Arif Shahid, Chairman of the National Liberation Conference (NLC) and the Chairman of the All Parties National Alliance (APNA), was assassinated by unknown persons in the late evening of May 13, when he approached his house. According to his driver, Rizwan Khan, when they reached Sardar's home the driver went to open the gate of the house and suddenly he heard the sound of gun shots. As he turned towards the sound he saw Sardar had fallen in a pool of blood. Sardar was quickly taken to the military hospital in Rawalpindi where he succumbed to wounds.
Sardar was assassinated on the same day as another human rights defender, Mr. Abdul Waheed Khan, who was assassinated in Karachi. These murders occurred exactly two months after the killing of Ms. Perveen Rehman in Karachi.
Sardar was a prominent writer and human rights activist and had written two books on the peoples' struggle of the Kashmiris of both sides -- India and Pakistan. The APNA of which he was chairman has links in both Kashmirs. The APNA was a campaigner for the independence of Kashmir from India and Pakistan. This organization was developed in parallel with the All Parties Hurriayat Conference of Indian Jammu and Kashmir which was patronised by the Pakistan government.
It is believed that he was assassinated by the agents of the notorious intelligence agency of Pakistan, the ISI, as he was always receiving threats from the ISI not only in Pakistan but also in Kashmir. Mr Sardar was a vocal critic of Pakistan's alleged role in sending militants to fight a "proxy war" against India in Indian-administered Kashmir. He also criticised Pakistan's policy of treating Kashmir as its "colony" and was opposing the occupation of Pakistan in Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.
The Pakistani government banned him from travelling abroad in 2009, and later confiscated his passport and other identification documents. The Ministry of the Interior told a court in December 2012 that his documents had been confiscated due to his "anti-state activities and on the recommendation of the director-general of the ISI intelligence service". Three months ago, police in Rawalpindi registered a case against him for publishing a monthly magazine which is alleged to have contained anti-Pakistan material. He was given pre-arrest bail by the court in that case.
Some months ago a delegation of non Muslim leaders of Indian held Jammu, came to visit Pakistani Kashmir (Azad Kashmir). Sardar received the delegation at Mirpur, his native place in Pakistani Kashmir, where he was arrested by the ISI and held in jail. After he was released he went back to Rawalpindi, Punjab, where an Anti-Pakistan case was lodged against him. His activities were not liked by the state intelligence agencies as he was opposing the policies of Pakistani establishment against Kashmir.
After his assassination protests against his killing was observed in both the parts of Kashmir and other parts of the world where Kashmiris are residing.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Human rights defenders have also been subjected to targeted killings by non-state actors, groups and individuals who opposed their work. While these are crimes in domestic law, under international human rights law the state also bears responsibility if it does not exercise due diligence, that is, if it fails to prevent such abuses or to ensure that the perpetrators are brought to justice.
Human rights defenders -- be they journalists investigating and documenting wrongdoings of state agents, lawyers representing victims of human rights abuses in court or human rights activists campaigning to end human rights violations -- have been subjected to a range of human rights violations themselves. They have been harassed, arbitrarily arrested and detained, subjected to enforced disappearance, torture and extrajudicial killings. Contrary to the spirit of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, state agents have committed such violations at a recently increased rate, and with impunity. This crackdown on human rights defenders has happened at a time when human rights violations are reported from Balochistan at an ever increasing rate, making the role of human rights defenders in supporting victims, campaigning for legal redress for abuses and working to end abuses more essential than ever.
The violence against human rights defenders and civil society organizations is rising by the state and Muslim groups which indicates a failure on the part of the government to provide protection to human rights defenders.
Journalists who work on human rights issues remain the prey of state and both state actors and Muslim extremist groups including the Taliban. So far 87 journalists had been killed in Pakistan since 2000. In the year 2012, eight journalists were killed while performing their official duty. During the first two months of this year alone, three journalist has been killed.
SUGGESTED ACTION:
Please write the letters to the following authorities calling on them to initiate a high powered inquiry into the murder of Sardar Arif Shahid which was allegedly done by the state intelligence agencies. Please urge them to take strong action against the state intelligence agencies particularly the ISI who is the main source of abduction, torture and extrajudicial killings of the Kashmiri people. Please also urge them to arrest and punish all those involved with the conspiracy and murder of Arif Shahid, stop the policy of harassment and intimidation in Pakistani Administered Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan and urge the government to allow the people of Pakistani Administered Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan to enjoy their fundamental human rights; the government must immediately pay compensation to his family members.
The AHRC is writing separate letters to the UN Special Rapporteurs on the Extra-judicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions and on the situation of human rights defenders calling for their intervention into this matter.
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Thursday, May 16, 2013
JKNIA PRESS RELEASE REGARDING MURDER OF ARIF SHAHID
London ( JKNIA Press Release) 15/05/13
Jammu Kashmir National Independence Alliance (JKNIA) condemns in strongest terms the targeted killing of renowned Kashmiri nationalist leader and chairman of All Parties National Alliance (APNA) Sardar Arif Shahid. It is widely believed that he was murdered by elements of Pakistani security agencies who notoriously engaged in extra judicial killings, harassment, detentions and forced disappearance of civil and political activists in Azad Jammu Kashmir and Pakistan.
JKNIA held an emergency meeting on 14th May 2013 in London attended by all the members of Alliance, JKLF, JKDFP and representative of civil society organizations where they expressed their shock and horror on behalf of the diaspora Kashmiri Community on the cold blooded murder of a great Kashmiri Leader and Activist Arif Shahid Central President of Jammu Kashmir National Liberation Council who was shot outside his house in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on 13 May 2013.
Mehmood Kashmiri, Chairman JKNIA informed the participants of this meeting that in very recent past Sardar Arif Shahid has been detained in Mipur Jail for hosting two fellow non-Muslim civil society activists from Jammu. His name was on Exit Control List (ECL) under the pressure of Pakistan’s secret service agencies because of his active role and building networks among all sections of nationalist political groups within AJK, Gilgit Baltistan and in Indian administered Jammu Kashmir. His name recently removed from ECL on the orders of superior judiciary in Pakistan and he was currently under trail for publishing a monthly magazine “Naya Kashmir”. It has emerged that he has been continuously harassed, intimidated and constantly watched and followed by the secret service agencies of Pakistan.
The Alliance urged Government of Azad Jammu Kashmir to formally ask Government of Punjab, Pakistan to constitute a judicial enquiry to look into all the aspects and connections leading up-to this cold blooded murder and to press upon local administration to take immediate and appropriate action to find and bring the killers of Arif Shahid to justice
JKNIA resolved to write to the Government of Punjab and Azad Jammu Kashmir and give them 7 days’ notice to constitute an independent judicial enquiry and to find and bring the killrs to justice.
If this is not done within seven days JKNIA will consider this yet another case of a deliberate extra judicial killing by secret service agencies of Pakistan and take launch Justice for Arif Shahid campaign at international level.
The leaders of JKNIA,Mirza Siddique (JKPF), Nadeem Aslam (JKNAP), Ghulam Hussain (KFM), Najeeb Afsar (KLO), Safdar Mir (ABK) and Azmat Khan (JKLF), Ershad Malik (JKDFP), Civil Society activists Shams Rehman, Sardar Aftab Khan, Shafqat Raja, urged all the members of Kashmiri diaspora in UK, Europe and all parts of the world to stand united and join the Justice for Arif Shahid Campaign to help in putting an end to extra judicial killings, harassment, detentions and forced disappearance of civil and political activists in Azad Jammu Kashmir and Pakistan.
Nadeem Aslam
Secretary General – JKNIA
Jammu Kashmir National Independence Alliance (JKNIA)
ARIF SHAHID KILLED BY UNIDENTIFIED SHARP SHOOTER IN RAWALPINDI PAKISTAN
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A prominent Kashmiri leader President Jammu Kashmir National Liberation Conference (JKNLC) and Chairman All Parties National Alliance (APNA) Arif Shaid has been murdered by an unidentified sharp shooter in Rawalpindi Pakistan .He was faced numerous threats including forge cases from the Pakistani agencies in the past. After the post mortem his dead body handed over to his family. The Janaza prayer will be offer tomorrow in his home town Chotha Galla Rawlakot POK.
The pro Kashmiri leadership shocked to hear the tragic and sad demise of Mr.Arif Shaid.The chairman JKNIA Mahmood Kashmiri , Nadeem Asalm Sec.Gen, Mirza Sadiq ,Najib Afsar ,Ghulam Hussain ,Safder Mir,Thair Bostan, condemn the target killing of the Kashmiri leader Arif Shaid.
In a joint statement the JKNIA leaders said his only crime is his firm belief of united independent and prosperous Kashmir and for this reason he had been arrested by the Pakistani secret agencies (ISI & others) many times before and his name was submitted into exit control list (ECL) and banned to travel abroad .He has no personal e enmity with anyone apart from his consistent political work which challenge Pakistani occupation in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (POK) and Pakistan occupied Gilgit Baltistan (POGB).
The demand of liberation (AZADI) from Pakistan in peaceful political manners is not acceptable for Pakistan military establishment and their agencies .Because of only for that reason he face a blind death with the bullets of a sharp shooter which took his innocent life in a brutal way .This is a real face of Pakistani occupation which won`t allow indigenous people to work for their fundamental rights and liberation from their occupied areas.
JKNIA demands an impartial transparent, independent judicial inquiry which holds the responsible and appeal to all human rights defenders to raise their voice to condemn this brutal killing of Arif Shaid .His work for unified independent Kashmir always be remembered.
JKNIA will take every necessary step to raise the voice of occupied Kashmir people in POK and all around the world until the justice has been done. Long live united independent prosperous Kashmir.
Jammu Kashmir National Independence Alliance (JKNIA)
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
JKNIA seeks their immediate, unconditional release from District Jail (prison) Mirpur Azad Kashmir.
JKNIA seeks their immediate, unconditional release from District Jail (prison) Mirpur Azad Kashmir.
Thursday, 17 January 2013 09:54 Nadeem Aslam
UK. 17 January 2013. IMMEDIATE UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE OF VIJAY ABROL,DARVINDER SINGH BEHAL AND ARIF SHAID PRESIDENT (JKNLC) FROM DISTRICT JAIL MIRPUR AZAD KASHMIR (POK
Your Excellency,
Mr Asif Ali Zardari the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Mr Raja Pervez Ashraf the Prime Minister of Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Via
Mr Syed Sail Abbas,Consul General Pakistani Consulate in Bradford, the United Kingdom
12-A North Parade
Bradford BD1 3HT
United Kingdom
It is an unfortunate that to promote peace and harmony through the people to people contact Vijay Abrol and Darvinder Singh Behal, guest Kashmiri leaders from Jammu Kashmir India (IOK). They were arrested on 12th January 2013 at Mangla Mirpur Azad Kashmir by Pakistan’s secret agency ISI along with the local police and agencies and have been shifted to District Jail Mirpur Azad Kashmir (POK). Arif Shaid President Jammu Kashmir National Liberation Conference (JKNLC) who hosted them is also arrested with them and is in prison too. They all are complying with the Kashmir state subject rule 1927 and are citizens of Kashmir.
Vijay Abrol and Darvinder Singh Behal have been charged by the police for ‘illegally’ entering Pakistani Occupied Kashmir. Both persons are messengers of peace and religious harmony is on the tour of good will gesture from the other side of divided occupied Kashmir (IOK).
Kashmir was an independent state on 15th August 1947, but was a victim of imperial agenda in the region and the creation of India and Pakistan led Kashmir a bone of contention between both countries. After 65 years Kashmir is divided into four parts and occupied by India, Pakistan and China. India Pakistan had four wars and various types of proxy wars on Kashmir. Which is a serious threat to the regional peace and security and world at large? Majority of Kashmiries want an united independent Kashmir for the betterment of their own people and for the region.
More than 27 resolutions passed on Kashmir in UN. Freedom of movement and assembly endorsed by the constitutions of India and Pakistan and their controlled (occupied) areas of Kashmir IOK, POK too. UNCIP is also responsible of the UN resolution’s including freedom of travel, assembly and movement for the Kashmiri state subject holders in all occupied and divided area of Kashmir.
Vijay Abrol and Darvinder Singh Behal are holder of Kashmir state subject and they came Pakistan and Azad Kashmir with their valid travelling documents. They delivered message of peace and religious harmony in various public gatherings and their purpose was to giving a message of peace, and they were arrested because this message contradicts with the policies of Pakistan and agencies in Azad Kashmir.
Jammu Kashmir National Independence Alliance (JKNIA) is an alliance of British Kashmiri parties endorses their anger and protest on the illogical, unnecessary arrests of Vijay Abrol and Darvinder Singh Behal and Arif Shaid President Jammu Kashmir National Liberation Conference (JKNLC).
JKNIA raise their demand via consulate of Pakistan in Bradford to Pakistani and Azad Kashmir authorities with their legitimate demand of their unconditional release of arrested prisoners.
This act of their arrests severely harms the cause of peace between the divided parts of Kashmir. Its expose the role of Pakistan military establishment and their agencies that are controlling Azad Kashmir (POK).Their actions are against the peace and religious harmony in the region and they are the supporters of proxy war in Kashmir.
JKNIA seeks their immediate, unconditional release from District Jail (prison) Mirpur Azad Kashmir.
On behalf of:
Jammu Kashmir National Independence Alliance (JKNIA)
Nadeem Aslam, Secretary General JKNIA
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