NEW DELHI: Government here has been granted 28 days time to respond to a number of petitions filed challenging the stripping IoJ&K of its special status as an autonomous state by scrapping Article 370.
According to details a five-member bench of Supreme Court of India, headed by Justice NV Ramana, while placing an embargo on filing of any fresh writ petition challenging the validity of the abrogation of occupied Kashmir’s special status under Indian Constitution’s Article 370, directed BJP-led govt and administration of IoJ&K to submit counter-affidavits in four weeks. The bench is scheduled to take-up the matter on 14th day of November (2019).
Three petitions have been filed by advocates ML Sharma, Shakir Shabir and Soyaib Qureshi against the presidential order. National Conference Lok Sabha members Mohammad Akbar Lone and Hasnain Masoodi have also filed a petition under Article 32 of Constitution that allows Supreme Court to issue any order to protect the fundamental rights of citizens. Their stand is that the presidential order was unconstitutional, void and inoperative in IoK.
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Kashmir dispute to be resolved as per aspirations of Kashmiri people: COAS
RAWALPINDI: Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa has declared that Kashmir was part and parcel of our soul and this dispute has to be resolved as per aspirations of the Kashmiri people.
“It [Kashmir] is not an issue of geography but our love with the people of Kashmir. We will make all out efforts to find a peaceful solution of the long-standing dispute as per relevant resolutions by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC),” COAS was quoted as saying by the military’s media wing Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
The COAS make these remarks while speaking with students and faculty of various educational institutions of Azad Kashmir, members of Youth Parliament Pakistan from AJK and members of Youth State Assembly from Azad Kashmir in Rawalpindi, said ISPR statement.
“Indian deliberate targeting of innocent civilians in Azad Kashmir and continued siege of innocent Kashmiris in Occupied Kashmir are worst examples of the human rights violations,” COAS added.
On the occasion, youth also conveyed their resolve and said that Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control are and shall stay Pakistanis for life.
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