Yasin Malik pens open letter to Sushma Swaraj, highlights Indian hypocrisy
The Hurriyat leader wrote that hundreds of Kashmiris face brutality of Indian forces in held valley
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – The chief of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Yasin Malik wrote an open letter to the Indian foreign minister Sushma Swaraj, slamming the hyprocrisy of the Indian state after the meeting of spy Kulbhushan Jadhav with family.
He criticised the Indian state for maligning Pakistan. Malik recalled his meetings with his mother in the jails saying, “It recalled me of my old mother’s ordeal, who not once but many a times, in the same manner, after her repeated pleadings to jail authorities, was denied a chance to hug me, her only son, at many Indian jails especially at Tihar.”
“I recollect my little sisters’ tears rolling down her cheeks at Indian notorious Jhodpur jail in 1999, when the then superintend of jail rejected her plea with a strange argument that only blood relation was allowed a meeting and brother sister relation was not a blood relation in his view. As a dignified woman you can envisage the trauma my little sister “Aamina” had to pass through when she had to leave and travel thousands of miles again back to home without meeting her brother," he wrote in the letter.
The imprisoned Kashmir freedom activist told Swaraj that India’s record of good behaviour with prisoners is not good as “India hanged Kashmiri freedom fighter Muhammad Maqbool Butt without allowing him a last meeting with his family members.”
He addressed the Indian minister and said that thousands of Kashmiris have disappeared after being picked up by Indian forces from their residences while the families are clueless of their whereabouts including the ‘half windowed’ wives.
Malik said that he is not allowed to meet his wife Mishaal Malik and family despite several requests.
