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| September 16, 2002 | Monday | Rajab 8, 1423 |
India will rig Kashmir polls, says Qayyum
ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: Kashmir Committee Chairman Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan said on Saturday the Indian bogey of cross-border infiltration and terrorism was aimed at legitimizing its entitlement to occupied territory.
Accompanied by committee member Dr Mehmood Ghazi, Sardar Qayyum was talking to bureau chiefs and senior reporters of Al Riyadh, Okaz, Al Youm, Al Madinah and Al Jazeera in Madinah.
He said it was unthinkable that at the Line of Control infiltrators could escape the vigil by over 800,000 Indian troops equipped with sophisticated weapons. He said Pakistan with its comparatively far smaller number of troops had no mechanism to put a stop to such an indigenous crossings.
Challenging the Indian drama of elections in held Kashmir, he said holding of elections in phases was aimed at ensuring rigging and manipulation in results.
Dr Ghazi called in question the credibility and fairness of elections in the presence of Indian troops and atrocities on the civilian population. The elections are in contravention of the UN resolutions which declared the state constituent assembly would have no control, authority and prerogative to decide the fate of Kashmiris.—AFP
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