Islamabad, 14 January 03:Muhammad Farooq Rehmani Chairman J&K People’s League has warned that the Indian government had no right to sell the property of Kashmiri migrants –hereditary  owners who were forced to migrate to Azad Kashmir or elsewhere due to political reasons after 1947 and would return to their ancestral places as soon as the conditions became normal and Kashmir issue would be settled honorably and peacefully. He said that the united Nations  had recognized J&K as a disputed territory as early as 1948 and the last 14 years of blood booth forced, disappearances, arrests, detentions and migrations of over 80 thousand Kashmiris from Kashmir had further reaffirmed, disputed status in a dimensional manner, making life, honour and property of native Kashmiris more insecure and putting the onus on the occupying administration and United Nations to honour guarantees and safeguards of homes and hearths of hereditary owners in occupied J&K. He argued that any attempt by Indian sponsored administration in Kashmir to sell or alter the basic nature of such properties would amount to sabotaging peaceful ways for resolving the conflict and would add fuel to fire. Muhammad Farooq Rehmani called upon UN to take notice of such provocative and unwarranted steps by Indian authorities in Kashmir and urged on India to desist from such moves against the civil society in Kashmir. He said the properties left behind by migrants sheltering in Pakistan/ Azad Kashmir or outside Kashmir valley in Jammu or Indian cities should equally be protected and there should be no discrimination between Kashmiri Pandit migrants living outside valley and refugees across the LOC in Azad Kashmir. He said Kashmir question was both political as well as humanitarian. Therefore, the divided and harassed civil. Society should not be punished for the continuing turmoil of their homeland for which India’s intransigence was solely responsible.

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