The Worldwide Human Rights Day was noticed globally on December 10. It was a day when civil society organisations and a number of other political events held seminars and nook conferences in Pakistan occupied Jammu Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan (PoJK/GB) in addition to among the many exiled diaspora.

Human rights have three facets: Social rights, political rights and financial rights. The individuals of PoJK/GB have been disadvantaged of those three classes of rights since October 22, 1947, when Pakistan attacked and illegally occupied our lands.

Social rights embrace employees’ rights at their work place, social safety, cultural rights, housing, entry to wash consuming water and meals, uninterrupted stream of electrical energy, entry to well being care and schooling.

In PoJK/GB even the road males working to repair electrical cables hanging from excessive energy wires on tall poles should not supplied with correct security gear. At most workplaces there are not any medical amenities and even bogs.

There isn’t any social safety cowl for the final inhabitants of 4 million. Our vibrant Kashmiri and Dogra tradition has been strangled by imposing the hegemony of an Islamic (learn Arab) non secular narrative.

Tons of of 1000’s reside in homes fabricated from tin metallic or are compelled to reside on hire because of lack of a nationwide housing program for the homeless.

Curable illnesses resembling hepatitis and cholera maintain recurring because of lack of fresh consuming water. Lack of correct inexpensive food regimen has left hundreds of thousands which has stunted progress.

Hospital buildings are confronted with scarcity of docs and medication, and lots of of 1000’s of our youngsters are unable to attend college because of abject poverty and are compelled to enter the kid labour market.

Colleges face a extreme scarcity of lecturers, bogs and dispensaries or a playground.

Therefore, we have now been denied our first and fundamental human proper which is our social proper.

Political rights that had been usurped by the occupation drive of Pakistan stay denied to at the present time. Solely these political events are allowed to function in PoJK/GB which brazenly declare their affiliation with the ideology of two-nation principle of Muhammed Ali Jinnah and signal an oath of allegiance to Pakistan.

Candidates, who aspire to take part in elections for legislative meeting or the native our bodies, are solely permitted to take action in the event that they signal an oath that they help the accession of PoJK/GB to the Islamic republic of Pakistan.

All types of political dissent are brutally crushed and political activists who dare to problem Pakistani occupation are sometimes assassinated.

The third element of human rights offers with financial rights. In PoJK/GB there has by no means been any try by Pakistan to develop an industrial infrastructure.

Thousands and thousands are unemployed and are compelled into financial exile in Europe, the US and the Center East to carry out no-to-low ability jobs in order that they’ll ship remittances to their households again house.

All pure assets resembling rivers and forest land stay below the tight management of the Authorities of Pakistan. Our pure assets are plundered day and night time and valuable stones, gold, and rubies value billions of rupees are stolen every year. Our forest timber are reduce down and bought within the timber markets of Pakistani Punjab. Not a single penny from this plunder comes our means.

On account of lack of funds the PoJK/GB authorities is unable to buy wheat and different meals necessities or pay wages to 1000’s of workers of a number of authorities and semi- authorities establishments resembling forest division, well being employees, and others. Lack of energy and electrical energy has left lots of of companies go burst which has elevated the variety of unemployed and people in destitute.

The listing of human rights violations and abuse we face within the PoJK/GB because of being below the occupation of Pakistan goes on and on.

Nonetheless, we have now one proper that we have now the freedom to train. That is the appropriate to struggle the social, political and financial oppression of Pakistan by rebelling in opposition to the above talked about injustices we face.

This proper we’re exercising now as 1000’s of our oppressed individuals not solely refuse to just accept the occupation of our territories by Pakistan however are actually giving the rebel a path to get liberation from Pakistan.

(Dr Amjad Ayub Mirza is an writer and a human rights activist from Mirpur in PoJK. He at the moment lives in exile within the UK.)

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