India working on ‘perception management’ plan in Kashmir

Islamabad

Jammu and Kashmir Council for Human Rights (JKCHR) has said that BJP Government and Indian agencies in Kashmir have started executing the 15 point Home Ministry plan to discredit and control the challenge posed to Indian occupation. As part of ‘perception management’ BJP has started promoting pro- India TV channels and newspapers for “perception management” in its favour and against the Kashmiri resistance, says a press release.

Dr. Syed Nazir Gilani President JKCHR has said that in addition to executing its fifteen point plan to discredit and control the resistance in Kashmir India is engaged in using mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination in Jammu and Kashmir. “We have already alerted the UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries by making a written submission on July 21, 2016 in New York,” he added.

JKCHR, he said has asked the UN Working Group to examine the manner in which regular armies have conducted themselves as private military and engaged themselves in mercenary-related activities. The situation takes a sinister turn when these armies see no wrong in raising private military and security companies (PMSCs) and work with them as a collective of mercenaries.

JKCHR Paper has said that Indian Army has continued to act as a private military and from 1990 has raised a private force called “IKHWANI” and gave it incentives of all kind to kill unarmed civilians or their kin to spread terror. Indian Army gave incentives of financial rewards and promotion in rank to its personnel and to personnel of Kashmir police, to find, arrest and kill the Kashmiri youth suspected of opposing the Indian rule in occupied Kashmir. The incentives encourage killing in staged fake encounters and death during custody. It has resulted into the death of a generation.

JKCHR President Nazir Gilani said that it is high time that state sponsored terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir and Indian plans to fragment the Muslim community in Kashmir is brought to the attention of United Nations at General Assembly, Security Council and all other levels and a case of crimes against humanity and war crimes be instituted in International Criminal Court. JKCHR shall be asking the Government of Pakistan to take a formal step and seek ICJ intervention on the non-compliance of UN Security Council Resolutions by Indian and the legitimacy of its army in Kashmir against the will of the people.

JKCHR President has advised the Kashmiri leadership to keep unity and not to be misled by moderate and hard line tags used by India to divide them. Fighting an occupation in any manner is justified and there are no grades in it. There are difficult days ahead as India is out to discredit and demoralise the people of Jammu and Kashmir, in particular, the Muslims at all levels. It is important that Kashmiris work out a means of self-auditing their work and other matters, so that Indian propaganda does not prevail.