Indian Army has 700,000 Hindu, Sikh Security men for the brutal Occupation of Jammu & Kashmir While on the contrary Pakistan gets its major volunteer recruitment in Pakistan Army from Azad Kashmiris
What a paradox in the history of Kashmir which is under occupation by Indian Forces and the Azad (Independent) Kashmir on Pakistani side, which gets its major recruitment of joining into Pakistan Army. So much so Pakistan has a separate Azad Kashmir Regiment (AK Regiment).
The
Azad Kashmir Regiment is one of the six infantry regiments of the
Pakistan Army.
The Azad Kashmir Regular Forces, established in 1947, were armed and supported by the Pakistani government. The regiment has the distinction of not having been raised by any government order, but "raised itself" , Initially towards the end of September 1947, local ex-servicemen and civilian volunteers started forming up in the shape of revolutionary groups of freedom-fighters in varying strength, mostly in platoon/company size groups under command of local leaders who had raised them in their respective areas of domicile. They were initially armed with heterogeneous weapons of sorts as mentioned earlier. They started operations against the Indian State Army in various parts of Poonch on 1st October, 1947, and soon spread their operations in other parts of Jammu and Kashmir State.
After a cease-fire was declared in Kashmir on request of India, these elements joined together to form the Azad Kashmir Regular Forces (AKRF). The AKRF had its own intake and training structure separate from the Pakistan Army. The AKRF was the military element of the Azad Kashmir Government. Uniforms and rank structures were the same as in the Pakistan Army. At that time, all the battalions of the AKRF were part of the 12th Infantry Division of the Pakistan Army, permanently stationed in Azad Kashmir. In wartime operations, the AKRF was part of the Order of Battle of the Pakistan Army, in which it was involved in 1965 Operation Gibraltar.
The Pakistan Army later honoured the AKRF by absorbing it into its own ranks and by giving it the status of a Regular Line Infantry Regiment. The AKRF thus became the Azad Kashmir Regiment on 20 September 1972.
In recent times battalions of the Azad Kashmir Regiment have been stationed all over Pakistan, and have served in places such as
Somalia, as part of the
United Nations contingent in that country.
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Indian Army & BSF:
India has to keep 700,000 troops in Jammu & Kashmir to subjugate the people who want the right of self determination. To suppress Kashmiris down, the Indian state has put thousands of boots on the ground. According to popular estimates, 7 lakh to 10 lakh security force personnel patrol the Jammu and Kashmir region. These troops are scattered across the whole state of Jammu and Kashmir, the entire Valley is around 135 kilometres long and 32 kilometres wide. Yet such violence inflicted on locals is spreading among security forces, with commanding officers struggling to contain it.
The brutalising of Kashmir’s people is also reflected in a brutalisation of the security forces, a particularly disquieting development in a conflict where men in arms now largely represent the Indian state. No elected representative of the ruling PDP-BJP coalition dares return to those in Kashmir who elected them. General Hooda says the stone-throwers no longer appear to fear the Indian security forces, even frontally attacking Indian army garrisons.
Apart from the relentless stone-throwing, the young men hurl racist abuse against Indian (”teri kali soorat”, your black face, smelly Hindu and Hindu “Bihari” are common) and otherwise provoke riot-control units to battle. “Our boys are hated, they get little rest and they are all armed; you can guess what will happen if command and control breaks down,” an Indian CRPF officer said.
In the past, that Indian command and control has frequently broken down, not just in the face of provocation but in the form of atrocities inflicted by security forces on Jammu and Kashmirs, protected by Indian law and aware that Delhi discourages punitive action against the wrong doers of 700,000 Indian soldiers. Managing the endless cycle of violence has for too long been a substitute for policy, but it has now reached an inflection point.
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While in Pakistani Azad Kashmir flourishing so high in Mirpur, Muzaffarabad, for so many years and not a single kind of protest which says that there is human right violation. The infrastructure is just not there in India, India don’t even allow foreign journalist, media, press, to travel throughout Kashmir, world human rights institutions are not allowed to come there, so there is no comparison. In Pakistani side of Kashmir, everyone can move easily, World Human Rights organisations, Journalists visit as if on travel and guided tour to any remote place of Azad Kashmir. During Politics elections, a lot of election drama is created, even in that all the Kashmirs live in peace and tranquility.
Above all, to keep a people subjugated is a repudiation of India’s founding ideals: Justice, liberty, equality and fraternity. India is facing growing hatred in world, India is fast in a downward spiral, India is facing isolation and disassociation from world, who either outrightly refuses or remains silent Indian Prime Minister Modi's rants on AK and Balochistan.
It is largely seen as India's attempt hide the violent extremist activities and crimes in Kashmir from the big world's eye.
