NA Speaker calls Malaysian counterpart to discuss occupied Kashmir issue
NA Speaker said that it is a historic fraud with the people of Kashmir.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Friday informed his Malaysian counterpart Mohamad Ariff bin Md Yusof with the Indian atrocious measures in the occupied Kashmir.
According to the details, NA Speaker in a telephonic conversation with Malaysian counterpart told him about the ongoing situation in the occupied Kashmir and the abrogation of the Article 370 and 35A which ended the special status of the valley by Indian government.
He went on to inform Mohamad Ariff about the scrapped articles from the Indian constitution and said that it is a historic fraud with the people of Kashmir.
Asad Qaiser expressed that this brutal act by India is the latest attack on the rights of the oppressed people of Kashmir. The people of the occupied valley are protesting against this cruel act of India, he added.
Talking to his Malaysian counterpart, Asad Qaiser said that there is a curfew in Kashmir and that the rule of the Constituent Assembly was suspended and the Governor’s rule has been enforced.
Malaysian Speaker Mohamad Ariff bin Md Yusof assured full support to the movement for rights of the Kashmiri people.
India‘s Hindu nationalist government stripped the disputed region of its autonomy on August 5 in a move that sent shock waves through South Asia and has seen the restive area come under military lockdown.
Internet and telephone connections in Kashmir have been cut since Aug 5 and a curfew imposed as the authorities feared trouble when the decision was announced.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s administration rushed through a presidential decree on Monday to ditch the Muslim-majority region‘s constitutionally-guaranteed status.
Parliament also passed a law splitting the state into two territories. Kashmir is also claimed by Pakistan, which on Wednesday expelled India‘s ambassador and suspended all trade in protest at the move.
Modi has said nuclear rival Pakistan used the special status "as a weapon against the country to inflame the passions of some people" against the Indian state.
Tens of thousands of people have died in a three-decade-old insurgency in Kashmir. India and Pakistan have fought two wars over the Himalayan region.
