{"id":2146,"date":"2012-06-11T17:43:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T17:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2012-06-11T17:43:06","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T17:43:06","slug":"tearful-kashmiris-want-self-determination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2012\/06\/11\/2146\/","title":{"rendered":"Tearful Kashmiris Want Self-Determination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news1\/kashmiris_want_self_determination.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/>Separated for years from their beloved ones, hundreds of Kashmiris marched on Sunday, June 10, to demand withdrawal of Indian and Pakistani troops from the disputed Himalayan region.  <!--more-->  <br \/>&#8220;Let me go,\u201d Ashraf Jan, a Kashmiri citizen living in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) at the bank of Neelum river.<br \/> \u201cI just want to see my parents and after that if I die, I will be in peace.\u201d<br \/>Like thousands of Kashmiris, Jan was forced to leave her mother and father to come to Muzaffarabad with her aunt in 1947.<br \/>Many other Kashmiris migrated to Muzaffarabad in 1990 to escape violence that sparked following the independence of India.<br \/>Overwhelmed with emotion, the 70-year-old Jan had to be stopped by relatives from jumping in the furious river to try to reach her ageing parents on the Indian side.<br \/>The emotional demonstration was attended by about 600 tearful Kashmiri men and women who gathered at the banks of gushing Neelum River.<br \/>It is one of the rare occasions in which the authorities allowed such events on the river.<br \/>Indian police and military did not allow Kashmiris on the other side to come near the river bank and they were left to wave from a distance.<br \/>Kashmir is divided into two parts and ruled by India and Pakistan, which have fought two of their three wars since the 1947 independence over the region.<br \/>Pakistan and the UN back the right of the Kashmir people for self-determination, an option opposed by New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aimless War<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kashmiri Muslims urged both India and Pakistan to leave Kashmir and divert their military spending to help poor people in both countries.<br \/>&#8220;India and Pakistan are wasting money on arms when millions of people have to sleep without any meal every night,&#8221; Arif Shahid, president of the pro-independence Jammu Kashmir National Liberation Conference.<br \/> \u201cThey should withdraw troops from Kashmir and liberate us so that they are able to work for the welfare of their citizens.\u201d<br \/>In the past years, the Himalayan region has been rocked by unabated demonstrations against the Indian rule.<br \/>More than 60,000 people have been killed since Kashmiris took up arms against the Indian rule in 1989.<br \/>New Delhi has consistently rejected any foreign mediation to solve the Kashmir conflict, leaving Kashmiris empty-handed.<br \/><em><br \/>Source: OnIslam &amp; News Agencies<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Separated for years from their beloved ones, hundreds of Kashmiris marched on Sunday, June 10, to demand withdrawal of Indian and Pakistani troops from the disputed Himalayan region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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