"Black Day Observed"
Black Day Observed Under the Auspices of ‘Coordination Committee (CC) of
APNA & GBNA in Rawalpindi.
Rawalpindi, April 28th 2004:
‘Coordination Committee’ (CC) of ‘ Jammu Kashmir All Parties National Alliance’ (APNA) and ‘Gilgit-Baltistan National Alliance’ (GBNA) observed here the ‘Karachi Agreement’ of 28th Apr, 1949, as a ‘Black Day’. The function was arranged in Press Club, Rawalpindi, chaired by Prof. MARK Khaleeque, the Chairman of ‘Coordination Committee’ (CC) and was conducted by Mr. Wajid Ayyub, a leader of JKNSF; while it was addressed, besides the chairman and the secretary, by Mr. Wajahat Hassan Khan, the Chairman of APNA, Mr. Nasim Iqbal, Advocate, the Secretary General of APNA, Mr. Arif Shahid, a member of CC and the Secretary General of JKNLF, Mr. Ishtiaq Hussain, Pub Secy of APNA, Col ® Nadir Hassan Khan, Dr. Ghulam Abbas, Nawaz Khan Naji, Secretary of CC, Mr. Zenab Shah and some others.
The speakers said that ‘Karachi Agreement’ of April, 1949, under which Gilgit-Baltistan(GB) was unconditionally handed over to Pakistan by the then AJK govt. is a historical and national crime which goes to the discredit of the then govts. of AJK and Pakistan. They said that it was due to this very ‘Agreement’ that Jammu Kashmir was split into three instead of two parts, the people of other parts of Jammu Kashmir and the people of GB suffered wide gaps, distances, estrangement and so many other misunderstandings, the liberation movement also suffered deadly setback and the Kashmir case and the entire cause was weakened. Moreover, this agreement deprived the people of GB of all of their rights, this situation persists till today. They demanded that this agreement should be done away with and some sort of political and administrative relationship between the people of Pakistan-administered-Kashmir - PAK (so called ‘Azad Kashmir’) and the people of GB should be established.
The speakers further said that both Bharat and Pakistan are responsible for the forcible division of Jammu Kashmir, and the demand of fair play and justice is that the entire Jammu Kashmir is reunified and the people are restored with their natural and national right of sovereignty. However, till such arrangements could be finalized, real and complete democracy should be established in all the parts of divided Jammu Kashmir by doing away with all the rules, regulations and laws imposed upon the people by or on behest of the foreign powers. They said that no foreign power has any right to impose herself on the people of Jammu Kashmir against their wishes and demanded that all foreign forces should be withdrawn from the soil of Jammu Kashmir, so that people could decide about their future freely.
It may reminded here that the ‘black day’ against ‘Karachi Agreement’ is being observed under the direction of CC of APNA & GBNA throughout PAK and GB today, where the leaders of APNA and GBNA have condemned this agreement and have also demanded of its dissolution. Before the conclusion, the following resolutions were also passed:
1. The meeting being held under the arrangements of CC of APNA & GBNA condemns ‘Karachi Agrrement’ and demands of its dissolution and the establishment of some sort of political and administrative relationship between the PAK and GB.
2. The meeting demands the restoration of the govt. of 1st Nov, 1947, in GB before the ensuing elections of Oct/Nov, 2004, so that the modalities regarding the said elections should be left to be sorted out by such a genuinely representative govt.
3. The meeting demands that Jammu Kashmir should be named as ‘ Bilore (being the historical name of GB) Jammu, Kashmir (BJK) for all intent and purposes in future.
4. The meeting demands that since the people of GB are sensitive and worried about their security, the status of NLI should be restored and be deployed in GB instead of out of it, and Northern Scouts should be raised, kept under the govt of GB and should not be sent out of it.
5. The meeting demands that while tackling Jammu Kasmir, the withdrawl of Indian and Pakistani forces should start from the extreme North, i.e. Laddakh, then Gilgit Baltistan, then Valley of Kashmir and then Jammu (includes the most of the PAK territory), and should be replaced by the forces of suitable and acceptable countries of UNO for a brief period, so that three states (Bilore, Jammu and Kashmir) could come into being before taking any final shape according to the wishes of the people.
6. The meeting demands that the ‘state subject rules’ which are in vogue in all other parts of Jammu Kashmir (Indian as well Pakistani Kashmir), and the land etc allotted in its absence to the non-locals should be cancelled.
7. The meeting demands that the affairs of the ‘Karakoram University’ should be streamlined and the deserving locals should be preferred for the employment in it, Cadet College Sakardu should be exclusively meant for the local people due to the acute backwardness in the educational field, the quota system in the educational institutions of PAK and GB should be abolished and the admissions should be made opened for the students of both the territories mutually, the FATA and FANA should be separated from the GB for educational and other purposes.
8. The meeting demands that political activists and leaders of both PAK and GB who are working for the national independence and the national rights in their respective areas should not be chased, persecuted and arrested by or on the behest of foreign forces and those like Hyder Shah Rezvi and others who are being proceeded against at present should be set free unconditionally.
9. The meeting demands that complete peace should be restored and maintained in all the parts of Jammu Kashmir by eradicating violence and terrorism, and all the routes between various parts of divided Jammu Kashmir, especially Srinagar-Muzaffarabad, Khaplu-Nobra-Leh, Astore-Bandipura, Gultari-Daras, Sakardu-Kharmang-Kargil, Hajira-Poonch and Mirpur-Jammu, should be opened forthwith for the people of Jammu Kashmir without any precondition of Passport and Visa.
10. The meeting demands that since the Jammu Kashmir is the disputed land, therefore no dam like ‘Mangla Dam’ or ‘Bhasha Dam’ should be constructed or raised over this territory, but if ‘Bhasha Dam’ is to be constructed it should be called ‘Diamir Dam’ and not ‘Bhasha Dam’. issued by Coordination Committee
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