Boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against India demanded

Boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against India demanded at an international conference on Kashmir.

All Party’s International Kashmir Unity Conference held under the aegis of Global Pakistan and Kashmir Supreme Council through a video link.

Boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against India

President Azad Jammu and Kashmir, (AJK) Sardar Masood Khan called upon the global community to initiate “boycott, divestment and sanctions” campaign against India.

While addressing the conference, he demanded BDS campaign  to prevent India from carrying out genocide in Kashmir and persecution of minorities in India.

The , AJK Presidential Secretariat told media here on Monday.

“The Hitler of 20th century, Narendra Modi has imposed the latest model of Nuremberg Laws under the label of domicile law, and it is high time that the international community take its notice and stop India from playing this heinous game,” he asserted.

Raja Sikander Khan and Kala Khan co hosted the Kashmir Conference in London.

It proposed a campaign for imposing sanctions on India to stop its atrocities and colonisation in IOJK.

The speakers also called for declaring of RSS as a global terrorist organization.

Those others spoke included: Governor Punjab Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar, leader of opposition in the Senate Raja Zafar ul Haq, Senator Lt. Gen. (retd) Abdul Qayyum, Pakistan Deputy High Commissioner in UK Mohammad Ayub, UK MPs and Shadow Ministers including Afzal Khan, Khalid Mehmood, Yasmin Qureshi, Mohammad Yasin, Tahir Ali, Lord Nazir Ahmad, Member of Kashmir Committee NaureenFarooq Ibrahim, senior AJK Minister Chaudhry Tariq Farooq, Chairman Public Accounts Committee Abdur Rashid Turabi, All Parties Hurriyat Conference leaders Ghulam Mohammad Safi, Faiz Ahmed Naqshbandi and others, and Amir Jamaat Islami Azad Kashmir Dr Khalid Mehmood.

Non-Hilal meat from India

The AJK president said some Middle East states have banned the import of non-Hilal meat from India, which is a good development.

Terming the one million-strong diaspora communities as Pakistan’s asset, the President urged Pakistani and Kashmiri expatriates to keep the Kashmir cause alive and redouble their efforts to highlight the happening in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

Masood Khan said member of parliaments from United Kingdom and the European Union are playing an excellent role to project the Kashmir issue in its true perspective.

Explaining the situation in Indian occupied Kashmir, he said people of the territory have been living under double lockdown. The first lockdown was imposed by India on August 5, last year and now the corona lockdown since March this year.

Unfortunately, the Indian government did not take any steps to protect the Kashmiri people from the coronavirus because it considers the Kashmiri people as its enemy, he regretted and added that Personal Protective Equipments, face masks and sanitizers are not being provided to common people and doctors in the occupied state.

He also spoke on on actions taken by India on August 5 last year and introduction of new domicile laws this year clear violation of United Nations resolutions, ICC laws and the fourth Geneva convention.

AJK President urged the United Kingdom to help facilitate urgent UN Security Council meeting to discuss Kashmir situation.

The state president also urged the UN Human Rights Council to immediately set up an independent investigation commission to probe human rights violations as recommended by the UNHCHR’s two reports on Kashmir.

EU and the UK MPs thanked for raising Kashmir issue

Appreciating the EU MPs and the UK MPs for raising Kashmir issue.

He hoped that the UK MPs will once again raise this issue in the parliament, and convince the UK government and Prime Minister Boris Johnson to talk to the Indian Government for the implementation of the UN resolutions.

President Khan expressed his gratitude to Raja Sikandar Khan and Kala Khan for hosting this transcontinental conclave of lawmakers, Kashmir advocates and human rights defenders.

He also thanked the eminent participants for their forceful contributions.

Meanwhile, Governor Punjab Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar and other speakers paid glorious tributes to Kashmiri martyrs and people of Jammu Kashmir for continuing the struggle for liberation of the homeland from long Indian slavery lending supreme sacrifices of their lives without taking care of the continual Indian reign of state terrorism and violence.

GTV