Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Continued lockdown in Indian-held-Kashmir has become even more ugly and debilitating as India launches a new wave of media censorship by filing an FIR against the prominent journalists. Nearly four hundred COVID-19 cases have already been detected in the area and the situation seems all set to worsen as India remains preoccupied with the obsession to silence the dissenting voices at every cost while showing no interest in protecting the local people from the effects of the deadly virus.
It was observed in the first-ever held online meeting of the Central Governing body of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf Azad Kashmir (PTI-AJ&K). Chaired by the President of the party Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry, the meeting strongly condemned Indian shelling on the Line of Control (LoC) and expressed sympathy with the parents of the two-year-old baby who was martyred by Indian firing in the Neelum Valley last week.
Barrister Sultan on the occasion reiterated that his party would not allow India to sideline the Kashmir issue by taking undue advantage of the world focus on the coronavirus issue at the moment. He urged the Kashmiri community living in the UK to support another online petition for debate in the parliament on the worsening situation in the occupied Kashmir.
He also took a strong exception to the misappropriation of the funds provided by the federal government under Ehsaas program AJ&K to combat the situation created by Covid-19. He reminded that the PML-N Government in AJ&K was distributing these funds among its workers and cronies in the area while paying no attention to the plight of the people badly hit by the virus. General Secretary PTI-AJ&K Abdul Majid Khan on the occasion disclosed that the AJ&K government intended to release eight crores apiece to its legislators in recent days in the name of reconstruction of roads in the area.
