{"id":3274,"date":"2014-06-07T15:36:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T15:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir-today.net\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2014-06-07T15:36:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T15:36:47","slug":"renaming-pok-pojk-non-issue-geelanis-huriyat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=3274","title":{"rendered":"Renaming POK as POJK a non-issue for Geelani\u2019s Huriyat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rejects both names, debate on this issue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Srinagar:\u00a0<\/strong>As the speculations galore that Narendra Modi-led NDA government at New Delhi is renaming \u201cPakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) as Pakistan-Occupied Jammu-Kashmir\u201d, the Huriyat Conference (G) led by Syed Ali Geelani termed the development a \u2018non-issue\u2019- maintaining that the amalgam rejects both the names.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a non- issue for us. We don\u2019t accept the terminology wherein the word occupied is used, whether it is \u2018Kashmir\u2019 or \u2018Jammu Kashmir\u2019 expected to be used for other side of the divided line, said Huriyat Conference (G) chief spokesman Ayaz Akbar.<\/p>\n<p>Akbar told Kashmir News Service (KNS) that if the amalgam raises concern about the renaming issue then it would be tantamount that it was endorsing the earlier name. \u201cFor us and for the people of this nation, it is Azad Kashmir and not the Pakistan occupied Kashmir.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Substantiating his claims, the Huriyat (G) spokesman stated that the other side of Kashmir is being termed as \u2018Azad\u2019 because Pakistan has always supported Kashmir cause and has represented Kashmir case at various international forums. \u201cPakistan itself terms Kashmir as a dispute and stresses for its resolution in accordance to the wishes and aspirations of the people of Kashmir.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Akbar remarked that the word Jammu being inducted into the terminology is aimed to erode Kashmir\u2019s history and credible background. \u201cThe history of this region is described with the word Kashmir and that Jammu is a district included later in state\u2019s name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pertinently, Huriyat (M) chief Mirwaiz Umar Farooq while delivering sermon\u00a0<span>on Friday<\/span>\u00a0at Kashmir\u2019s grand mosque stated that Modi government\u2019s proposed move to rename Pakistan Administered Kashmir as \u201cPakistan Occupied Jammu Kashmir (PoJK)\u201d in its nomenclature is \u201cfraught with dangerous consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reports were carried earlier by various dailies that centre\u2019s decision to rename the PoK comes in great anticipation for signaling a strategic shift in its own approach to Jammu &amp; Kashmir. This will further have an A-list priority along with the rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits on the government\u2019s List of tasks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rejects both names, debate on this issue Srinagar:\u00a0As the speculations galore that Narendra Modi-led NDA government at New Delhi is renaming \u201cPakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) as Pakistan-Occupied Jammu-Kashmir\u201d, the Huriyat Conference (G) led by Syed Ali Geelani termed the development a \u2018non-issue\u2019- maintaining that the amalgam rejects both the names. \u201cIt is a non- issue for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}