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Freedom Democracy Equality

United Kashmir Peoples National Party

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Press Conference April 23, 2009

Government of Pakistan is still supporting

the Taliban and other Islamist forces

Sardar Shaukat Ali Kashmiri Chairman United Kashmir Peoples National Party has addressed a press conference in Geneva

Press Club on ongoing and emerging situation in Pakistan Federally Administered tribal areas which are adjacent to

Afghanistan. Sardar Shaukat Ali Kashmiri comprehensively elaborated on all aspects on the situation, the role of state

security establishment, Military and its secret agencies and also replied to the questions raised by the journalists and

audiences. Sardar Shaukat Ali Kashmiri said;

Geneva holds a special significance on many accounts but Geneva Press club contribution has been pivotal in giving voice to

the voiceless people, marginalized regions, underdeveloped cultures, and underrepresented nations.

The role of the UN Human Rights Council is to evolve the mechanism to stop the human rights violations and persuade thestate to respect and improve the human rights record including democracy, development and human dignity set by the worldcommunity. But it is the, you media people who are catalyst in educating the people and spreading the message of humanrights and protecting them. Without Media this challenge cant be accomplished.

As people from Kashmir, our concerns, demands, views are not different than rest of the world community. We have seizedthis opportunity to share with your our concerns and grievances of the people from that region, and what we experience underthe tyrannical rule of Pakistan military regimes over the last six decades.

I am referring to the terrorism, extremism and fundamentalism emanating from Pakistan and posing serious threat to theregional and global order. We have been expressing our serious concerns at UN Human rights forum, briefings, conferences,

in the European Parliament that military in Pakistan is using extremists and fundamentalists as a foreign policy tool. Unlessthe Pakistan military is stopped from nurturing, breeding and infiltrating extremists across the borders, attempts to buildpeace whether in Afghanistan or with India is not possible.

However, world community paid little attention to our concerns and was busy in appeasing Pakistan military regime byfilling their coffers so that they may genuinely extend cooperation to root-out terrorism. But now after seven years of waragainst terrorism and pouring billions of dollars realized that they couldnt persuade military and ISI in Pakistan to changetheir course. After seven years of efforts, Taliban are taking over Pakistan bit by bit which is the vision and mechanism ofPakistan military and ISI to ensure if safe heavens of Taliban are not disturbed by the newly elected ANP government inNWFP-which subscribes secular views and may not at ease with military agenda. Terrorism remains the serious threat to theSouth Asian region where terrorist infrastructure is intact and their infiltration is ongoing process. Pakistan has becomedangerous place in the world and its policies of using extremist resulting into serious chaos and crisis throughout region.

Replying to a question Party chairman said that, In Pakistan military establishment strongly believes that stable Afghanistanmeans unstable Pakistan, and unstable Afghanistan means stable Pakistan. Pakistan military is embarked upon the samepolicy, notion to destabilize Afghanistan. The Pakistan ISI and military has had very ambitious agenda about the expanding

its sphere of influence and regional ascendancy through its proxy extremists, and has seriously been involved over thedecades to recreating Islamic identity of Pakistan as opposed to the South Asian identity.

The extremists and terrorists that are viewed by West and others as threat to regional security and stability but are deemed asstrategic ally and asset by military and intelligence agencies of Pakistan. This perceptional gap that persist between both Westand Pakistan military cant be filled with pouring money and opening up wallets. This strategy of persuading through pouringmoney and aid has further convinced them that their strategy of extremism is paying rewards and they continue to use to reapfurther economic and political concessions from the West and India. This strategy need to be revisited and reevaluated withchanged mechanism accompanied by the accountability, transparency, progress, conditionality otherwise there are genuinerisk of money may be passed on to these groups or against India as previous record support such views. In the past and recentagreements with Taliban they have compensated Taliban by paying huge amounts and releasing those terrorists and providingample time to regroups and reorganize that idea mustnt be encouraged by Western governments.

The policy of proliferation of extremism and nuclear are two prong approach of Pakistan military to blackmail west which isunchanged yet. The release of A.Q.Khan, Lal Mosque Imam is step towards encouraging hawkish forces and putting pressureon the West.
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We would seek your support and cooperation to advance the cause of peace, human freedom, dignity, development anddemocracy, a dream which is being taken away from our people, region, and race by unleashing forces of obscurantism,extremism and terrorism by the Pakistan military and intelligence agency.

Describing the situation billions of people are facing in Volatile region Sardar Shaukat Ali Kashmiri emphasized and said thatour people have yet to reach to the stage of realizing humanism, liberalism and free vales when forces of darkness andextremism would cease to exist. This is the duty of free media, free nations and people living in the West to come forward toresist these forces and force and expose those governments and its network involved in dehumanizing the societies and

degrading the human dignity through these forces. South Asia is experiencing worst kind of brutalism, barbarianism andterrorism in the disguise of freedom, historical fault lines, aspirations; successive Pakistani regimes have been advancing toprotect their act of infiltrating extremists and terrorists across the border. But after decades world and U S now recognize thatKashmir conflict is being used as tool to protect the acts of terrorism Pakistan based extremists groups are involved inKashmir and India. How Taliban government has abused the women in Afghanistan, and recently in Pakistan Swat where awomen was publically flogged by the same elements of Pakistan. World must take serious notice of these developmentswhich are challenging the very basis of our society, culture, human values that exist for centuries.

Highlighting the plight and miserable socio-economic and socio-political conditions of the of so called Azad Kashmir andGilgit Baltistan under Pakistan control Mr. Kashmiri told the journalists that these areas have become launching pad ofextremists and militants against the democratic voices of the Indian administered Kashmir. Our culture is being transformedby radicalizing through preaching Jihad against India while killing its Baloch leaders who seek control on their resources anddemand their legitimate socio-economic and political rights denied for six decades.

Replying to a question on terrorists training camps and infrastructure of Jihadis that continues to exist, and militants areinfiltrated in Kashmir to undermine the peace process and CBMs which had begun after decades of proxy militancy and

hostility. The brutal murder of Deputy Speaker of Northern Areas Legislative Council just two days ago by the same forcesand ISI is aimed at to engineer communal riots to create political climate where they could seek the justification for militaryrule once again. The killing of Deputy Speaker is not the first incident in Gilgit Baltistan but is long list of such killings havebeen carried out against the majority Shia population which is deemed to be unfriendly and obstacle in the speared ofextremism there. Our region and population is victim of Pakistan ISIs ambitious agenda of using extremist as proxy armyagainst India to capture Kashmir.

Our region suffers from poverty, illiteracy, backwardness, high child mortality rate, underdevelopment, unemployment,malnourishment, and lack of health and education facilities, in Pakistan. The Pakistan controlled Areas continue to be usedagainst Indian administered Kashmir as militants base camps that seriously affected development and safety of the local population. The Mumbai terrorist attack was clear conspiracy against the ongoing peace process to which new civilianPakistan government was eager to push forward. But ISI and military used it to sabotage the burgeoning India- Pakistanrelations, like Musharraf had done Kargil misadventure to thwart Lahore Declaration that then PM Nawaz Sharif and Mr.Vajpayee had signed.

Our above submissions to you Journalist friends to examine judge and may merit your attention to rescue our people andregion from the forces and conspiracy of Pakistan ISI to destroy our identity and culture in the name of Islam and freedom.Pakistan is at the crossroad of disintegration which poses serious threats to the region where military brasses showing noqualm over this challenging situation South Asian region is facing. World community must put proper mechanism in place tomeet these challenges and possible fall-out of unraveling Pakistan.

It was the consequences of those policies that after Soviets withdraw from Afghanistan, Pakistan had manipulated entireAfghan politics and economic affairs by installing their liking Taliban regime. During Talibans rule in Afghanistan thetraining camps and terrorist network was expanded to other parts of the country in Pakistan and Pakistani AdministeredKashmir. The secret agencies of Pakistan transferred their religious terrorist groups into Pakistani Administered Kashmir andstarted their activities from that region. Lashker e Tayyaba and many others have been carrying out destructive activitiesagainst political leadership of Jammu Kashmir from Pakistani Administered Kashmir.

They have been claiming the responsibilities of bomb attacks, and assassination of secular, progressive and democraticleadership of Jammu Kashmir from Muzaffarabad and from Muridkey a small town near Lahore Pakistan Punjab province. Itis also matter of fact that Pakistani Military and secret agencies have been using two regions of former princely state ofJammu Kashmir under their illegal administration as launching pad, and to hide terrorists from the eyes of world community.

We have heralded world community to stop Pakistan of using religion as weapon and foreign policy tool, but unfortunatelythe world community didnt opened its eyes and continued support Pakistani military and undemocratic forces in the country.Before proposing some suggestions I would like to explain the situation of the more marginalized people of Gilgit Baltistan,who are victimized since 1949, the people in this region have not any representation in constitutional forum and due toconstitutional restraints they have not constitutional, political and socio-economic rights.

Calling upon world community, civil society and human rights defenders Sardar Shaukat Ali Kashmiri further told the

audiences that the natural resources of this region have been badly plundered since this area was illegally occupied by

Pakistan in 1949, about two million people are deprived and living under fear and harassment created by Pakistani secret

agencies in the area. Despite the fact that this region has given an opportunity to Pakistan to trade with its neighboring

countries the state institutions have divided the people on communal lines and religious harmony was badly damaged in the

region. We have serious concern that Government of Pakistan is leasing the land of this region to P-R-China which is

contrary to the status of this region and Pakistan promises with the world community. The political and civil society actors in


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continuation in present regime Pakistani state institutions have been befooling world community that religiousarmed groups have been disarmed and banned properly.

5. We strongly urge and request to the world community to ask Government of Pakistan to guarantee freedom of

speech, assembly, freedom of thoughts and that all political parties should be allowed to take part in elections anddemocratic process.

6. That the constitutional restraints imposed on democratic and pro-people and pro-independence political parties ofPakistani Administered Kashmir must end now.

7. Pakistan and local authorities at Muzaffarabad should collect a data of educated and unemployed youth in theregion and a proper arrangement of their respectable livelihood are arranged.

8. We also request to the world community that Government of Pakistan must emphasize to establish industries inboth regions, Azad Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan in order to overcome unemployment.

9. That the hatred literature must be banned throughout the country, and such literature should be banned from theschools as well.

10. It is also matter of fact that military is claiming that she is prepared to counter any escalation, but why she is unableto stop the broadcasting of illegal FM radio stations in Federally Administered Tribal Areas? In our views it is notpossible without the blessings of the military and secret agencies so that they can get more funds from the westerncountries and United States in the name of war on terror.

We strongly urge world community to ask Pakistan to take serious steps against those who involved in killings of political

leaders, civil society activists, and political activists in Gilgit Baltistan. That the construction of Basha dam in the region must

be halted and plundering of natural resources must be stopped and these areas immediately handed over and reunited with

rest of Jammu Kashmir.

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