Islamabad, 05 November 2011: Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People's Freedom League, Muhammad Farooq Rehmani has opined that since the decision of the federal cabinet to bestow the Most Favoured Nation Status (MFN) upon India without the resolution of Kashmir is fraught with multiple unruly implications; the National Assembly should thoroughly look into the move and censure the cabinet decision in the larger interests of Pakistan and Kashmir movement. He referred to an explanation given by the Foreign Minister Hina Rubbani Khar that the two parts were already trading across the LOC, and the Kashmiri leadership had been engaged on this issue.
Muhammad Farooq Rehmani said that the four years' old trade resembled smuggling, and had no recognized rules of free trade with universal monetary facilities. Many such post-2004 steps had disillusioned the Kashmir's resulting into two major summer uprisings in 2008 and 2009 in Kashmir against India. He said that before 2004, the advocates of soft border theory argued that such initiatives would improve human rights situation in Kashmir, but later the tough stance of India and increased rights abuses negated that view as a pipedream. " Today no political worker or a sympathizer of a pro-freedom party can attend his office or even rest inside his home. Only a prison cell awaits him, and no prison or police centre is empty," he remarked.
He quoted from the writings of late Altaf Gohar one of the renowned writers and distinguished bureaucrats of the country who wrote in 1995, on the question of granting MFN status to India, "All foreign exchange and trade restrictions were unilaterally imposed on Pakistan by India after independence. Pakistan was forced to have a currency of its own, when it had no security printing press, because the export of Indian currency from the Nasik Press in India was banned without giving Pakistan any notice. The rupee balance due to Pakistan under the division of assets and liabilities was illegally withheld by India and released only as a result of British intervention."
Muhammad Farooq Rehmani said, "Economic sanctions is the only weapon to stop a country from committing human rights violations on the subjugated people in a particular land. India is committing barbarities on the Kashmir's and Pakistan is making international efforts to stop state terrorism in Kashmir. How would it look if Pakistan were to accord India the status of our Most Favored Nation? What other peaceful ways remain open to save Kashmiris from the ferocious clutches of the Indian rule?"
God help Kashmir's in these ominous developments.
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