It was a day to be remembered for Kashmiris living in Europe.

Kashmiris living in Europe stage protest in Geneva to press for K-resolution

                                                                                                                    

 

 

          ‘JK needs urgent attention along with global refugee crisis, Syria’           

Rising Kashmir News

Geneva:

Kashmiris from world over today gathered at Palais des Nations in Geneva and held a peaceful protest to highlight HR violations and need for the resolution of Kashmir issue, a statement issued by Kashmir Institute of International Relations (KIIR) from Geneva said. 

Statement said, it was a day to be remembered for Kashmiris living in Europe.

“On the occasion, a Member of Parliament from United Kingdom, Khalid Mahmood, joined Kashmiri leaders from PaK Kashmir and Indian administered Kashmir, to send a joint message to the United Nations, to world media and to human rights defenders who are currently attending the 30th session of UN Human Rights Council,” statement said, adding: “Despite heavy showers, Kashmiris from UK, Germany, Italy and other parts of Europe gathered in front of the UN building. Chaudhry Pervez Ashraf, a Minister in PaK government, had flown in from Muzaffarabad, to join the protest.”

Diplomats, the media, and rights activists from around the world witnessed the peaceful protest, the largest by the Kashmiri diaspora this year, statement said, adding, “Participants shouted slogans challenging Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stop the Kashmir movement.” 

 

The Kashmir protest was preceded by a seminar inside the UN building where MEP Khalid Mahmood, senior APHC leaders Altaf Hussain Wani and Syed Faiz Naqshbandi, and Sardar Amjad Yousaf Khan, Executive Director Kashmir Institute for International Relations [KIIR] addressed international human rights defenders, said the statement, adding, it was an opportunity to update the world public opinion on the situation inside Kashmir. 

“The Kashmiri leaders from across the LoC and Pakistan did not stop at this. The daylong Kashmir activism concluded with a high-profile press briefing at the Club Suisse de la Presse, better known as the Geneva Press Club. Prior to the event, the Club management sent out press notes and flyers to over one-thousand members, briefing them on the significance of this Kashmir briefing,” statement said.  

The event, titled “Kashmir and the Standoff Between Nuclear States of Pakistan and India”, was was-streamed live, which created an uproar on the social media, statement said. 

“The key speakers in the briefing were Khalid Mahmood (Member of Parliament from the UK), Chaudhary Pervez Ashraf (Minister PaK), Altaf Hussain Wani (APHC leader), Syed Faiz Naqshbandi (APHC leader), Sardar Amjad Yousaf Khan (Executive Director KIIR), and Ahmed Quraishi, Executive Director YFK who also moderated the briefing,” statement said. 

The participants in the briefing sensitized the Swiss and international media on the urgency of the Kashmir dispute, sais the statement, adding, “They argued that the world was close to a possible nuclear war and that the issue required urgent attention along with the global refugee crisis, Syria and other international matters.”

 

By: RK News