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AJK TV: A Taxing Task
by
Mumtaz Hamid Rao
The
delightful n’ lovely soil of Azad Kashmir
shall—visibly—get its own TV centre by February-5 next. With the instigation of it’s’ legwork, the
date set for its lift-off is as marvellous as the vivacious venture. It would be a fêted ‘Kashmir
Solidarity Day’—which intensely illustrates the realism that the heart-beat of the glittering people
of the charismatic Himalayan State orchestrates n’ synchronizes alone with their jovial brethren of
Pakistan.
Though the task should have been set in motion—years ago, explicitly to flout n’ counter—or at
least to offset the vile n’ nasty propaganda crusade, unleashed by the cantankerous India with humbug
as its plinth—the verdict even taken now—shall be received by gallant Kashmiris—with a fabulous
acclaim n’ zest—all-over.
Without going by a sycophant impend for any-one—irrespective of ones’ stature of any magnitude—we
feel delighted in presenting a fragranced bouquet with lofty emotions of adore to all those who have
materialized the elongated exquisite dream into an eventual reality. The marvellous mission has been
initiated by the Minister for Information n’ Broadcasting, Sheikh Rashid Ahmad—who himself is
auspiciously as pure as a chivalrous Kashmiri and that too by birth n’ bequest.
With this insight one can anticipate that the avid Minister must have kept the bona fide
goals n’ raison d'être—before him to clutch the ultimate aspires of the project in a redolent
style. Though he is identified as a cerebral with a velvety mindset—like the merry Kashmiri silk—yet
he will have to be a bit stiff on the plan he has taken in hand. He must be aware of the fact that
the current epoch is—by n’ large—hallmarked by miscellaneous sets of flatterers—equipped with
personal gains in the silhouette of either indexing themselves onto the pay-roll [even without the
worth of acquaintance, dexterousness or familiarity with the exigent Kashmir cause]—one way or the
other or are abysmally excited for self-projection to knock the zeniths of their political seeks.
As an icon of actuality, such a loom has given a full-size blizzard to the vindicated objective to
project the Kashmiris’ right of self-determination in a feisty n’ spirited way. Paradoxically such a
course persists unabated—as an upshot of which we have not been able to take hold of the echelon of
adore n’ compassion from the comity of nations—despite the passage of UN resolutions on Kashmir—with
one voice—for more than a dozen-time. This proclivity—specifically—while composing delegations for
overseas needs to be ceased at-once, lest the enemy’s hideous propaganda gets injected into the minds
n’ souls of even the erudite world—to eschew a toxic shot for the Kashmiris’ legitimate insist with
an indubitable outlook—a right of every dynamic nation.
India seems all set to dupe the world on the Kashmir Issue via a ferocious propaganda
campaign—even at the cost of its famished people who are swiftly fading in hunt for a loaf of bread
n’ are instead receiving bullets in return from their wild n’ callous rulers. Thus it is an apposite
time to act with a pragmatic n’ powerful way to thwart New Delhi’s sadistic designs.
Side-by-side the opus of delegations—for beyond oceanic, the media—may it be print, electronic or
web newspapers with country’s first independent multilingual desk-top daily TIMES.com.pk atop—in
Pakistan is needed to be patronized with an all-out strapping technique. Of-course TV in Azad Kashmir
shall add-on eloquently to realize its dazzling aims plus onto Pakistan’s accredited perspective
vis-à-vis the Kashmir Issue. Every patriotic soul knows that Azad Kashmir is a podium or a base-camp
for Kashmiris struggle against the wicked India—which invaded a part of the sanctified soil with full
armed might—against the aspirations of its gallant dwellers, a reality copiously authenticated by the
world body.
So it’s hoped that the inspiring n’ striking TV shall tag on the momentous policy of AJK Radio
which jolted not only the untamed Dogra regime n’ its ‘master’—India but simultaneously the unruffled
world—when it [the Radio] ricocheted—with slim resources—the forceful voice of Kashmiris from a
mobile unit from an elfin—yet breathtaking town of Azad Kashmir—the fantastic, Trarkhel.
The policy—indexed by this robust entity—if followed by resultant television in AJK can surely
prove as a shepherd for the emancipation of the guiltless people, being targeted by the brash
contaminated million-plus troops in Indian Held Kashmir who have turned the paradise on Atlas into a
horror-spot. Creation of a think-tank—composed of the valid intellectuals n’ logicians—is ought to be
taken as a pre-requisite to outline the cue-sheet of the first TV in a sensitive terrain like the AJK
so as to ensure that the envisioned n’ visualized results are accomplished—in a strong-minded n’
resolute way.
The author is a noted journalist, political analyst and ex-Director News Pakistan TV. He
is a regular
contributor to
Media Monitors Network (MMN).
Source:
by courtesy & © 2003 Mumtaz Hamid Rao
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