Dr Amjad Ayub Mirza

Nov 17: Think about it’s important to reside beneath situations the place there isn’t a electrical energy for days and so as to preserve your loved ones heat through the winter season you’re pressured to burn the picket furnishings that you simply inherited as your wifes dowry.

Think about there isn’t a operating water for months and also you and your ladies and youngsters should fetch water from the polluted river day in and day trip.

Think about you aren’t being paid your wage and the native store keeper refuses to offer you meals necessities on credit score except you clear the present debt.

Think about you’ve gotten been given the sack with out prior discover and the college your kids go to refuses to allow them to sit within the class room attributable to ono-payment of tuition charges.

Think about you’re an outdated pensioner and the put up workplace refuses to pay your pension attributable to lack of funds.

Think about you ship you daughter to a school to be educated and her personal professor kidnaps after which rapes her.

Think about scores of your feminine college students are forcefully despatched to go to Pakistan army private stationed on the Line of Management fulfill their lust for male gaze.

Think about you’re a faculty instructor and it’s important to observe sit-ins at authorities places of work and beg for a pay rise from those that you as soon as taught in your class room.

And picture you’re unable to cost your cell phone since you reside in a metropolis doesn’t have energy and electrical energy for 22 hours’ day.

That is what my individuals are pressured to reside like for the previous seven a long time.

In Pakistan occupied Jammu Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan (PoJK and PoGB) individuals are affected by malnutrition, illness, psychological well being points, unemployment, drug abuse, sexual exploitation and harassment that leaves them with little alternative however to finish their lives.

From 2018 to 2022 at the very least 219 suicides have been report in PoGB alone. Some 1.5 million younger and center aged males from PoJK out of a complete inhabitants of 4 million have been pressured emigrate to the Center Jap nations, Europe and North America to carry out underpaid and unskilled or low expert jobs for numerous corporations.

The roles my folks carry out within the above point out elements of the world embrace fork lifting, driving taxis, working as cooks and kitchen porters, waiters, safety guards and as rest room cleaners at airports and purchasing malls.

Our land is wealthy in pure sources together with minerals, treasured stones, forests and contemporary water rivers which if correctly managed might generate a mixed income of greater than $10 billion a yr.

This sum of money can simply pay without spending a dime schooling and electrical energy, hospitals, pensions in addition to in creating essentially the most trendy industrial, and social infrastructure that might match any metropolis that belongs to todays superior capitalist world.

The explanation my individuals are poor is as a result of our lands have been beneath the unlawful occupation of the state and armed forces of Pakistan.

On October 22, 1947 Pakistan military attacked our state of Jammu and Kashmir and started massacring non-Muslim spiritual minorities within the title of ‘purifying’ Jammu and Kashmir of infidels.

This resulted within the worst type of genocide of the Hindu and Sikh communities for the reason that Holocaust. Greater than 100,000 Hindus and Sikhs had been beheaded, shot or hacked to dying between 22 October 1947 and March 1948.

It was on October 26, 1947 that our king, Maharaja Hari Singh, signed an instrument of accession with the Republic of India opening method for Indian troops to land within the capital metropolis of Srinagar and push again the invaders.

Nevertheless, a ceasefire brokered by the then United Nation Safety Council introduced the conflict to an abrupt halt leaving the unliberated territories of Jammu Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan within the arms of the Pakistan authorities.

To this present day my folks await the time they’d be liberated and let loose from the unlawful occupation of Pakistan.

In response to the instrument of Accession, signed between Maharaja Hari Singh and Lord Mount Batten, territories which are beneath the occupation of Pakistan are additionally a part of that settlement thus making each territories (PoJK/GB) and integral a part of India.

Due to this fact, myself and my individuals are Indian residents by default.

And above all Nerendra Modi can also be our Prime Minister. Is it not time that our prime minister ought to unwaveringly increase the difficulty of our subjugation and struggling with the world neighborhood and assist to set us free and rejoin our motherland?