MUZAFFARABAD: As Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) continues pursuing an anti-state agenda, they are set to observe a statewide strike on Monday, a move that only shows their real motives — creating chaos in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).
In an interview to HUM News, AJK Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwarul Haq explained how the JAAC — a so-called civil society organisation — is exploiting the situation despite that the fact only two of their demands could not be accepted.
Sharing the details, Haq said two federal ministers — Amir Muqam and Tariq Fazal Chaudhry — held a marathon 13-hour session to resolve the issue with the JAAC leadership, but the so-called civil society organisation announced the failure of talks despite the progress.
The latest controversy erupted after JAAC presented a new charter of demands although they had accepted their won’t be any after the government reached a deal with them in December last year.
According to the AJK prime minister, they JAAC delegates remained busy in taking guideline on phone repeatedly, which only shows the puppeteers were sitting somewhere else. The two demands are just an excuse.
But what are those two demands?
Large commercial or industrial electricity consumers too should be treated as domestic consumers. It is certainly an illogical demand and reveals how economic interests can easily manipulate the people.
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However, the second one is even more alarming.
JAAC wants that the reserved seats for refugees — refugee seats — in the AJK Legislative Assembly should be discarded which is tantamount to declaring the international Kashmir dispute as a local issue.
And this argument of JAAC again proves there are foreign actors controlling this organisation.
The AJK in the interview rightly compared the JAAC demands to what Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi did after abolishing Article 370 end the special status of Jammu and Kashmir.
Modi not only increased the region’s share in the Indian Parliament but also relocated 6.5 million Hindus from other parts of India to Occupied Kashmir.