Staff Reporter
Prominent Kashmiri leader, Mishal Malik said on Tuesday that India is working on a plan to change altogether the demography of Kashmir in the next five years and then to agree to hold a plebiscite in order to get the favorable results.
She said this while speaking at a four-day workshop on “Modi’s Hindutva policy, bleeding Kashmir, and the response of Pakistani media” organized by Pakistan Broadcasting Academy (PBA) here in collaboration with the PTV, APP and the National Press Club.
She lamented that after revocation of special status of Kashmir on August 5, India has rendered the Kashmiri people aliens in their own homeland. Non-state subjects are being settled in Kashmir on the pattern of Israeli settlers in Palestine, she said adding that every kind of repressive means are being applied for this purpose.
Mishal Malik said that the Indian forces had been using rape and molestation as a weapon of war against the Kashmiris. Hundreds of thousands of Kashmiri people have been martyred, maimed, incarcerated, rendered disabled and orphaned so far.
Referring to strong and intertwined bonds between Pakistan and Kashmir, she said that both Pakistan and Kashmir were interdependent, and their survival was linked to each other’s survival. Therefore, it is obligatory for every Pakistani to support the Kashmir cause, she said and added that media owes the greatest responsibility in this regard.
Paying great homage to the father of the nation, Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, prominent Kashmiri leader said that he was a great envisioned leader and he had justifiably described Kashmir as the jugular vein of Pakistan. Such a leader has been produced by the contemporary history, she added.
Mishal Malik said that media including print, electronic and social media are actively pleading the Kashmir issue from their respective platforms to familiarize their respective audience with the true perspective of Kashmir issue, the negative implication of Modi’s Hindutva on the social fabric of society, the naked human rights violations Indian forces have unleashed against the defenseless Kashmiri people. In this connection, she particularly stressed the projection of Kashmir cause in the international media through articles, reports and interviews.
