Indian army chief incriminates himself: JKCHR

Islamabad : Jammu and Kashmir Council for Human Rights (JKCHR) President Dr. Nazir Gilani, has said that Indian Army chief General Bipin Rawat’s statement that “Azadi will not happen, one can’t fight Army”, has no merit. No army on earth has ever won a war against an unwilling people and Indian army is no exception, says a press release.

Dr. Nazir Gilani currently visiting Pakistan and Azad Kashmir, has said that British army could not hold down the people of Indian sub-continent, Russian army could not hold down the Afghan people and Serb army could not hold down the people of Croatia and Bosnia. The fate of Indian army in the end would be no different in its war against the people of Kashmir. The erring soldiers would land in Hague for their war crimes.

JKCHR president said that Indian Army shall have to fight the five interest groups pointed out by Britain in the Security Council on February 5, 1948 and five Kashmiris living at Srinagar, Muzaffarabad, Gilgit, five generations of Kashmiri refugees living in Pakistan and a huge Kashmiri diaspora spread all over the world. Gen Bipin Rawat’s army has no capacity to fight these ten elements and he has flagged himself as a future subject of war crimes.

General Rawat’s army after the surrender of accession by India at the UN Security Council on 15 January 1948, for a UN supervised vote, has lost all legitimacy to stay in a part of the disputed State of Jammu and Kashmir. Under the first terms of admission into Jammu and Kashmir, Indian army has been designated as a supplement and a sub-ordinate army. The authorities of Indian occupied Kashmir reserve the right to terminate their presence in Kashmir. The five interest groups identified by Britain at the UN Security Council have a right to re-group and fight against the Indian occupation.

Indian army does not have any mandate to be in Kashmir because one of the guarantees provided by Sheikh Abdullah in their favour, that the UN Commission would be there to watch them, is missing. In addition the presence of the Indian army in Kashmir remains in violation of the three UN restraints placed on their number, behaviour and location.

Dr. Nazir Gilani has asked the Srinagar Government to reinstate the visa requirement for Indian citizens, which was unlawfully rescinded by the Prime Minister of a part of Kashmir on 31 March 1959, terminate the permission granted for the temporary admission of the Indian army and assume as a provisional, responsible and representative government designated in UN Resolutions.

JKCHR President has asked the Government of Pakistan to report the erring behaviour of the Indian army chief to the United Nations and ensure that the self-defence of the people is not further compromised, by continuing the freeze of the five interest groups under UN Resolutions into a non-action. People of Jammu and Kashmir and their sympathisers have a right to fight to undo the Indian occupation.

Dr. Nazir Gilani has asked the civil society of India to take cognisance of the statement of Indian Army chief and warn him that like General Harry Dyer, he would be consigned to the dust bin of history. If Jallianwala Bagh massacre could not dampen the resolve of Indian people, how would Indian Army fight the ten elements in Kashmir?