London, September 02 : The Executive Director
of Kashmir Centre London, Professor Nazir Ahmad Shawl, has said that
autonomy or self-rule within the Indian constitution is not acceptable
to the people of occupied Kashmir.
Professor Nazir Ahmad Shawl in a statement issued in London said that
the present uprising was a categorical intent of the people of the
occupied territory for which they had been struggling for last six
decades. “The present struggle is not for economic packages or good
governance,” he added.
He said that the people of Kashmir were no longer prepared to be
lured by concessions or promises made by the Indian government. Shawl
said that through the sustained struggle, the people of Jammu and
Kashmir were sending a message to the international community that its
time to act, intervene and facilitate a result-oriented tripartite
dialogue had come.
The Executive Director said that previous election results were also
surreptitiously used by the Indian leadership to cover up their crimes
and massive human rights abuses. “Elections in occupied Kashmir have
never been credible. The previous so-called elections were just a
military operation as every pro-freedom leader was denied the political
space and placed behind the bars,” he maintained
Professor Nazir Ahmad Shawl said that the present movement needed to
be viewed as a declaration by the people of Jammu and Kashmir that
nothing short of self-determination was their ultimate goal and they
must be given a choice to choose their own political future according to
their aspirations in a free and impartial atmosphere.
