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Provide IDP (internally displaced persons) Status to 1947 POJK Dp’s

By Ronik Sharma (Advocate)



The whole world witnessed the forced displacement by the Pakistan aggression on the Indian State of Jammu & Kashmir since 1947 in which the people were forced to leave their movable as well as immovable properties in the areas of Mirpur, Muzaffrabad , Kotli, Bhimber, Sudhnati, and rawlakote which is still in the illegal occupation of the Pakistan. The majority of the people who have been faced displacement were Hindus and Sikhs. They have faced harsh realities in which many people have lost their family members and their relatives in this forced displacement by the external aggression of the Pakistan. When the country was celebrating the freedom from the British Empire these people were forced to leave their homes and hearths within their own country and a large population of Jammu and Kashmir was mercilessly killed by the Pakistani ‘invaders’. The areas occupied comprised of the then Mirpur District and a part of Poonch Jagir Jammu Province of J&K State, large part of Muzaffrabad District of Kashmir Province of J&K State and Gilgit / Baltistan parts of Ladakh region of Indian state of J&K State. As per J&K Raj Bhawan website (http://jkrajbhawan.nic.in ) the total area of the Indian State of J&K is 2, 22, 236 sq. kms out of which 78114 sq. kms are under the illegal occupation of Pakistan and 42, 685 sq. kms are under that of China Control of 5180 sq km of areas out of the areas ( 83304 sq km) occupied by Pakistan in 1947 October was given by Pakistan to China in 1963. The Indian government has no official record of people who lost their lives during and due to forced displacement in which a large number of people had to run for saving their life leaving behind their moveable, immoveable properties, personal and property documents. There were very scarce means of transportation during those days. People had to walk long distances without food and water even for days before the survivors could reach safe shelters/ bases. Even during their agonizing journey they were attacked by ‘Pakistani’ aggressors. It is pertinent to mention here that in that large scale forced displacement within the country a large population lost life, physical assets, social support and even honours of woman folk. There is no official record with the government that how many infants, women and sick lost their lives. No government agency can give the count of the orphaned children and widowed women, women who embraced death to save their honour and the disabled youth. But roughly it might have been in several thousands. As for as the 1947 POJK dp’s issue is concerned, more than Seven decades have been passed but none of the government in centre as well as in state is concerned to fulfil the real demands of the people of 1947 Pakistan occupied Jammu and Kashmir. But the state as well as central government labelled PoJK DPs as only “displaced persons”, which did not fall in the legal categorisation of refugees or “internally displaced persons” which was unfortunate due to which 1947 PoJK DPs had been living under miserable conditions since 1947. As per the Definition of the internally displaced person (An internally displaced person (IDP) is someone who is forced to flee his or her home but who remains within his or her country's borders. They are often referred to as refugees, although they do not fall within the legal definitions of a refugee). Even Parliament of India had passed a resolution on 22 February, 1994:


1. The state of Jammu and Kashmir has been is and shall be an integral part of India and any attempts to separate it from the rest of the country will be resisted by all necessary means

2. India has will and capacity to firmly counter all designs against its unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity and demands.


3. Pakistan must vacate the areas of the India state of Jammu and Kashmir, which they have occupied through aggression and resolves that


4 All attempts’ to interfere in the internal affairs of India will be met resolutely




The Resolution was unanimously adopted.


As the community completed more than 70 years of uprooting from their homes of Pakistan occupied Jammu Kashmir the state government as well as the central government fail to take possession of their lands from the native country which was illegally occupied since 1947. Pakistan has raised terror camps in areas of Muzaffrabad strongly since 1990 for training the militants to infiltrate in J&K and rest part of the Indian territory and still these training camps are active for infiltration, Government of India fail to take stern action against the Pakistan for not raising terror camps in these areas of POJK which is integral part of the India was illegally occupied by Pakistan since in 1947. Since they are internally displaced people they needed to be given all the facilities and monetary assistance which is given to internally displaced people. Even after passing of seventy years nothing has been done to ameliorate their problems. Government of India must issue a notification for fresh registration of these displaced people which has yet not been done, whereby they call for registration all those internally displaced persons within the state and without as they were state subjects of erstwhile state of Jammu Kashmir ruled by maharaja Hari singh. This measure will provide soccer to internally displaced persons. By according internally displaced person’s status to them.



(The writer is National Convenor Roots in POJK.Feedback : [email protected] Mobile:-9419102468 )



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