Fascist BJP-RSS led regime imposes a war: Masood Khan.

MIRPUR -- Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan, citing the re-occupation of Jammu and Kashmir by India on August 5, had said that a war had been imposed on Kashmiries and we would have to fight this war for our existence.

'This is a war for our sovereignty; for protecting our cultural and religious identity, and the rights of our Kashmir brothers and sister', he said.

The president made these remarks while addressing a web-conference on 'Solidarity with Kashmir during COVID-19 and lockdown effects on Kashmir and Pakistan' organized by the National Youth Empowerment (NYE).

Students from Lahore and Sahiwal were present at the conference. Abdullah Hamid Gul, Chief Patron NYE also addressed the conference.

The AJK president in his remarks said that many still were not aware of the gravity of the situation in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ and K), especially post-August 5, when India re-occupied the disputed territory. India, he said, had even issued fake maps showing AJK and Gilgit-Baltistan as part of India.

'These fake maps are now available all over the internet', he said while condemning these actions as a grave violation of international law and UNSC resolutions.

Masood Khan said that IOJ and K despite being an internationally recognized a disputed territory had been divided into two parts Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir - by the Indian government and that too without the consent of the people living there. Resultantly, he said, India had brought these two newly divided areas under the direct control of Delhi and in turn inadvertently internationalized Kashmir.

'The area now occupied by India is actually a part of Pakistan as its people had wished to accede to Pakistan and despite all efforts of India to coerce them into submission they have rejected their rule and writ', Masood said.

Terming August 5 and October 31 actions taken by India in IOJ and K as lebensraum, irredentism and expansionism, the president said that the rights to permanent residence, ownership of property, livelihoods and education - as protected by international law - had been usurped by Delhi. Since April, this year, after the introduction of the New Domicile Rules the Kashmiris had been made homeless in their own homeland, he said. Masood Khan said that Hindus from all over India were being allowed to settle in IOJ and K and their domiciles were being made ready in a period of only 15 days on the instructions of Delhi.

The president informed...