New York, (Parliament Times) : Kashmiri diaspora community settled in the United States staged a strong protest in front of the UN office in New York to register their protest against India’s belligerent military occupation of Kashmir and widespread human rights violations being committed by the Indian occupation forces in the territory. Pertinently, the protest demonstration was held on the occasion of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the UN General Assembly.
On this occasion, the protestors raising banners inscribed with anti-India and pro-freedom slogans called for holding a referendum in Kashmir as per the UNSC resolutions. Besides the members of the Kashmiri and Pakistani diaspora community, the protest was attended by the representatives of the Sikh community. Despite the heavy rain and cold weather, people from all over the United States thronged to the city square to join the protest demonstration. On this occasion, President Azad Jammu and Kashmir Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry addressed the protest through a video link from Islamabad.
He said that India has unleashed a reign of terror in Occupied Kashmir. He said that the occupation forces deployed in length and breadth of the territory have broken all records of barbarism and brutality. He said that since August 5, 2019, India has intensified its efforts to change the region’s demography. He said that over the past couple of years, fake domiciles were issued to more than four million non-state subjects. He said that besides altering the region’s demography Indian government changed the political landscape of Kashmir through a fake delimitation process. He said that the Modi government was now planning to install a Hindu Chief Minister in Occupied Kashmir to legitimize the actions it had taken on Kashmir since 5th August 2019. He, however, maintained that the valiant people of Kashmir would not allow India to succeed in its nefarious designs.
Terming the Kashmir dispute as the oldest unsolved problem on the agenda of the United Nations, he said that the time has come that the United Nations should play its role to get its resolutions implemented so that Kashmiri people can be able to determine their political future peacefully. He said that the world community should also take effective notice of the state terrorism being used by the Modi government as a tool to crush dissenters within and outside the country. He said that on the one hand, India has made the lives of the Kashmiri people miserable in Occupied Kashmir, while on the other it had brutalized the religious minorities including Sikhs, Christians, and Muslims in, Punjab, Manipur, and other states of India. He said that the shocking incident of Kuki women being paraded naked in public in Manipur has left India exposed at the international level.