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Setting record straight: It's PoJK, not PoK 10/7/2016 10:23:44 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Oct 7: Everyone in Delhi in the political circles, media houses and Delhi-based and other think-tanks and commentators are not really aware of the geography and demography of this part of Jammu and Kashmir State and other part of the State which has been under the illegal occupation of Pakistan since 1947. As for this part of Jammu and Kashmir State, almost all term the State as Kashmir. They completely ignore the fact that the State consists of three distinct regions of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh, as also the fact that while Ladakh is the largest region and Jammu the second largest, Kashmir doesn't constitute even 12 per cent of the state's territories. The fact is that they consider Kashmir as the entire State of Jammu and Kashmir and the urges of Kashmiri people the urges of the entire population of the State. It is this flawed approach or o the solution of the so-called problem in Kashmir. Even many Kashmiri leaders very loosely use Kashmir, which further adds to the confusion and outrages the sensitivities of the nationalist people of Jammu and Ladakh. If they are not aware of the geography and demography of Jammu and Ladakh, they are also ignorant about the demography of Pakistan-occupied-Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan. They term PoJK as PoK and say Pakistan has failed to take along with it even Kashmiris of this area. It's not PoK; it's PoJK. For, almost 85 per cent of PoJK and Gilgit-Baltistan formed part of the Jammu province and Ladakh region and it was basically one district of Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, that was annexed by Pakistan. Another important fact is that it was the PoJK which witnessed migration on large scale and all those who migrated were from PoJK and almost all of them migrated to Jammu. Even people of Muzaffarabad migrated to Jammu province. Kashmiri leaders didn't allow migrants from Muzaffarabad to settle anywhere in Kashmir. Leave aside a handful of people who could manage their settlement in Srinagar. They say that the people of PoJk speak Kashmiri. It is not true. Not a single Kashmiri lives either in PoJK or in Gilgit-Baltistan. Similarly, not a single person in PoJK and Gilgit-Baltistan speaks Kashmiri language. This is the factual position. It is hoped that policy-planners, think-tanks and commentators would revise their opinion taking into consideration the geography and demography of the state.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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