AJK President Sardar Masood Khan has underlined that freedom can be neither attained nor maintained without ending prejudices and bias because nations are made by not promotion of prejudices but ending these ills.
Addressing the launch of two books Meezan-e-Zeest and Azad Jammu Kashmir ka Ain (Tareekhi tanazir main) authored by former AJK chief justice Manzoorul Hassan Gilani, he regretted that the culture of book writing had almost diminished in Pakistan and Azad Kashmir though book writing is a laborious job and it requires energy and resources.
He paid great tributes to Manzoorul Hassan Gilani for writing not one but two books despite resource constraint. He maintained that in one book, Gilani had made the constitution a document understandable for the common man, and has also facilitated him in understanding balance among the three state pillars ie judiciary, legislative and executive in terms of rights and obligations.
“The book will certainly facilitate in applying constitution and law in the state and will help the common citizens to have access to justice,” he added.
Referring to the situation prevailing in occupied Kashmir, the AJK president regretted that we could not help our brethren in occupied Kashmir in getting the Indian siege and curfew lifted despite passage of 81 days. “Our fight against India is on several fronts. Once it outrages dignity of our brethren in occupied Kashmir and sometimes it engages us in the UN Security Council and Financial Action Task Force, but our struggle continues and we are determined to carry on our struggle till the realisation of our goal,” he added.
Commenting on the views expressed by a speaker on the occasion, Sardar Masood Khan explained that Azad Kashmir was liberated by not the tribesmen but the local inhabitants who had directly fought the Dogra Army.
However, he asserted that after independence, the tribal people had helped the locals in foiling Indian attempts to capture Azad Kashmir.
The AJK president said that in 1947, some people were not involved in the liberation war of Azad Kashmir, but the same people are now writing new chapters of the history of Kashmir freedom struggle, and “we salute them”.
The participants paid glowing tributes to Manzoorul Hassan Gilani particularly for competitive studies of political evolution in both Azad Kashmir and occupied Kashmir, different important verdicts of AJK judiciary, state’s concern with Pakistan, and other relevant issues.
