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The Jammu-based Research and Advocacy Group (RAAG) has urged the Government of India to summon the Charge d'Affaires of the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi and lodge a strong diplomatic protest over the reported killings, injuries, arrests, restrictions and humanitarian hardships being faced by the people of Pakistan-occupied Jammu & Kashmir (PoJK). In a detailed memorandum addressed to External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar, RAAG has sought a formal oral and written demarche to Pakistan, followed by an appropriate Note Verbale recording India's concern and expressly reserving its sovereign and territorial position over PoJK. According to an official release, the memorandum is submitted by Advocate Madhavi Sambyal, authorised signatory of RAAG, drawing attention to the situation in PoJK and the appeals emanating from its people to India for protection of their lives, liberty, dignity and basic rights. The people of PoJK are not merely inhabitants of a territory. They are our own people - people of Jammu & Kashmir, separated from the rest of the country by a Line of Control and presently living under Pakistan's illegal occupation. Their suffering and their appeals therefore cannot be treated as somebody else's problem and must receive assurance that they have neither been forgotten nor forsaken, and their voices and suffering continue to matter to the people and institutions of India, RAAG said. RAAG further maintained that appeals emanating from PoJK during the present crisis ought not to remain unanswered and should receive an appropriate, considered and visible response from the Government of India, consistent with India's sovereignty, national security interests and established position on Jammu & Kashmir, the release stated. The memorandum places particular emphasis on India's longstanding position that the entire territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh are an integral part of India and recalls the unanimous Parliamentary Resolution of 22 February 1994 calling upon Pakistan to vacate areas under its illegal and forcible occupation. RAAG has also relied upon Section 14(4) of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, which provides that 24 seats in the J&K Legislative Assembly shall remain vacant until the area under Pakistan's occupation ceases to be so occupied and the people residing there elect their representatives. The organisation said this provision is significant because Parliament has expressly recognised not merely the territory but also the people residing in that area. The organisation expressed particular concern over the failure of the Jammu & Kashmir Legislative Assembly to raise and discuss the plight of the people of PoJK, despite the statutory framework of Jammu & Kashmir expressly recognising their place within the larger constitutional framework of the Union Territory, the release noted. The memorandum notes that the Assembly has, during different sessions, witnessed members raising issues concerning Palestine and Gaza, Iran, Israel and the United States, but, according to RAAG, the continuing crisis affecting the people of PoJK has not received comparable institutional attention. The Assembly has found occasion to raise and discuss international conflicts involving Palestine and Gaza, Iran, Israel and the United States. Yet, when people of our own Jammu & Kashmir, living in PoJK, are making appeals against violence, repression and humanitarian hardship, there has been no discussion. This silence raises a legitimate question

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