AJK prepared to thwart Indian misadventure: Masood Khan

ISLAMABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan on Friday strongly condemned the statements of Indian Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Manoj Mukund Naravane, saying AJK was prepared to thwart any of its misadventure with a strong response.

The Indian CDS had claimed to detain Kashmiri children to their so-called de-radicalisation camps where they were maimed and tortured through electrocution and beaten up with metal wires, while the Indian Army chief announced that if Indian parliament allows then he will invade AJK.

Masood Khan said: “Indian occupation forces are apprehending youths and children in the occupied valley and sending them to concentration camps and North India’s jails where they are being subjected to unprecedented atrocities. I will like to challenge India that AJK is prepared to thwart any of its misadventure with a strong response.”

He said Indian occupation forces had turned the entire valley into a jail and it (India) had divided occupied Kashmir into two parts on October 31, 2019 and was also committing gross human rights violations amid forcefully seizing the lands of Kashmiris.

Masood Khan said Kashmiris had started civil disobedience movement after the Indian occupation forces started depriving the Kashmiris from their livelihood and businesses by destroying their reaped crops of walnuts, saffron and other eatables grown in the valley.“I would like to remind India that AJK and Gilgit Baltistan (GB) people have convincingly defeated the Dogra forces and are able to give crushing response to Indian aggression,” he said.

“There is an unusual movement of Indian forces across the Line of Control (LoC) where they have also installed missiles and at present removed the barbed wire from different locations along the LoC that has increased our reservations for a possible attack.

“We have never accepted this barbed wire division between AJK and occupied Kashmir where both parts are Pakistan. However, these barbed wires have been removed to call it terrorist intrusions made from AJK in the wake of any false flag operation being planned by India.

“The recent arrest of Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Davinder Singh has exposed India’s nefarious design to hold a terrorist attack in Delhi where the accused was reportedly involved in Pulwama Attack and Indian Parliament Building attack.

“We should never rule out the risk of war in the region, whereas the entire Pakistani nation, AJK’s 4.2 million people and 2 million people of GB are ready to turn the valley into Indian soldiers’ cemetery,” the AJK president said.