Shall quickly mention few of the main things:
1. The draconian laws like AFSPA, DAA, POTA, PSA imposed on the people of J&K must be repealed immediately.
2. The army of both India/Pakistan should be immediately called back from j&K region, the entire valley must be demilitarized by both and full freedom of speech and movement ensured in Kashmir
3. India/Pakistan must fulfill the promises made in 1947 and give the people of J&k with all due respect and dignity their right to choose what they want viz:
a) accession to india
OR
b) accession to pakistan
OR
c) [b]THEIR OWN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY governed in the manner THEY want, guided by the values THEY want to follow and believe in[/b]
4. justice to the kashmiri pandits with all honesty and immediate end to the exploitative use of Kashmiri pandits issue indian govt to dilute/mislead the kashmir movement.
5.
The Pakistan govt must stop with immediate effect, its support to elements who are indulging in murderous activities and trying to hijack the secular, rightful, nonviloent, just movement of the kashmiri people for the sake of its selfish motives.
6. Elements from both India/pakistan, both state and non state actors included, responsible for bloddshed, murder, rape, attrocities, human rights violation in Kashmir must be brought to the court justice.
It goes without saying that this msut be done irrespective of the caste, creed, political views of the victim. Obviously, without any question it includes muslims, pandits, Sikhs, innocent boys like tufail matoo who have been murdered in coldblood innocent women like Nilofar and Asiya of Sophian, who have been dishonored, and political dissidents like Mr. Yasin Malik.
“The
Jagmohan regime witnessed the exodus of almost the entire small but vital Kashmir
Pandit community from the valley.
Padma Vibhushan Inder Mohan (later he renounced the title) and I [
Balraj Puri] were the first public men to visit Kashmir in the second week of March 1990 after the new phase of repression had started. Though the Kashmiri Muslims were in an angry mood, they heard us with respect and narrated their tales of woe. At scores of the meetings to which we were invited during our short but hectic visit, Kashmiri
muslims expressed a genuine feeling of regret over the migration of Kashmiri Pandits (KP) and urged us to stop and reverse it. Encouraged by the popular mood, we formed a joint committee of the two communities with the former chief justice of the High Court Mufti
Bahauddin Farooqi as president, the Kashmiri
Pandit leader
H.N.Jatto as vice-president and a leading advocate
Ghulam Nabi Hagroo as general secretary, in order to allay the apprehensions of the Kashmiri Pandits.
Jatto recalled that the Pandits had reversed their decision to migrate in 1986 after the success of the goodwill mission led by me. He expressed the hope that my new initiative would meet with similar success. A number of Muslim leaders and parties, including militant outfits, also appealed to the Pandits not to leave their homes
, Jatto welcomed and endorsed their appeals, but soon migrated to Jammu himself. He told me that soon after the joint committee was set up, the Governor [Jagmohan] sent a DSP to him with an air ticket for Jammu, a jeep to take him to the airport, an offer of accomodation at Jammu and an advice to leave Kashmir immediately. Obviously the Governor did not believe that the effort at restoring inter-community understanding and confidence was worth a trial.
The experiment came under cross fire. The official attitude was far from cooperative. The rise of new militant groups, some warnings in anonymous posters and some unexplained killings of innocent members of the community contributed to an atmosphere of insecurity for the Kashmiri Pandits. A thorough, independent enquiry alone can show whether this exodus of Pandits, the largest in their long history, was entirely unavoidable.”
Source: http://www.kashmirlibrary.org/kashmir_timeline/kashmir_references.htm#fn64
Kashmiris are alienated from both countries given brutal repression by India and violence by pro-Pakistan militants. In a recent poll by MORI [BBC News, 31 May], only 9% and 13% of people of Kashmir Valley, where the discontent and insurgency is concentrated, have preferred to join India and Pakistan respectively Caught in the crossfire between militants and Indian security forces, Kashmir continues to bleed.
Source: http://www.kashmirlibrary.org/kashmir_timeline/kashmir_chapters/human-rights.shtml
