Instead of restricting to the Kashmir issue and Indian atrocities in the occupied valley, Imran Khan and Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) vilified each other even on Kashmir Day observed on February 5 across Pakistan.
The government and opposition pointed guns at each other as they addressed public gatherings organized in line with the day in different parts of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).
The opposition leaders united under the banner of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) gathered in AJK’s Capital Muzaffarabad and centered their speeches to find faults with Imran Khan.
Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML- N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz accused Prime Minister Imran Khan of selling Kashmir to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that it was during Imran Khan’s regime that the Indian premier revoked the special status of Kashmir.
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto reiterated that Prime Minister Imran Khan was ‘selected’ and befitting response to the Modi government could be given only by a democratic government in the country.
PDM Head and Jamiat-e-Ulema – Fazl (JUI-F) Chief Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman accused of engineered rigging in the Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) poll.
Further, while addressing a mass gathering in Kotli in AJK in line with Kashmir Day, Prime Minister Imran Khan initially dwelled on the Kashmir issue and what his government has done for it so far ever since it assumed power.
However, he also suddenly swerved from the topic and restated his resolve of not granting NRO to the opposition leaders.
“I would not give them [opposition] NRO even if they hang themselves upside down”, he affirmed.
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In another Kashmir Day rally, Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed threatened that he would teach opposition a lesson if it took the law in hand while staging the planned long march on Islamabad on March 26.
Further, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government published an advertisement in the newspapers where it introduced a new term ‘Kashmirians’ for the people living in the valley on both sides of the border.
Such demeanors on part of Prime Minister Imran Khan and PDM reflect the freedom of Kashmir is becoming more of a pipe dream as both do not take the burning issue as seriously as required and instead vilified each other in pursuance of their political objectives on Kashmir Day.