ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Human Rights and Women Empowerment, Mushaal Hussein Mullick, on Tuesday urged world powers and human rights organisations to press India and Israel to stop their genocidal actions and accept the birth rights of people of Kashmir and Palestine.

She made this observation following the visit of Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir to the US, during which he raised the longstanding Kashmir dispute.

Mushaal Mullick said that the COAS unequivocally conveyed to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that peace in South Asia would remain elusive until resolution of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the UNSC resolutions and the aspirations of the Kashmiri people.

She maintained that his message gave fresh impetus to the ongoing Kashmir freedom struggle and was a testament that Pakistan was standing firmly with their Kashmiri brothers and sisters in this just war of right to self-determination.

The SAPM on Human Rights and Women Empowerment, in a statement, appreciated the army chief for strongly taking up the unilateral, unconstitutional, and illegal Narendra Modi-led Indian government’s efforts to change the special status of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) at the highest level.

She underscored that the notorious Indian government crossed all limits of barbarism and terrorism to silence the dissenting voices in and abroad of India. Mushaal Mullick pointed out that all minority communities were being subjected to brutal state terrorism and coercive actions, which was evident from its global terrorist networks targeting people in Pakistan, Canada, and even America.

The SAPM urged the UN bodies and the world powers to pay attention to the report of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), which exposed the dirty and brutal face of India before the world.

She contended that the commission rightly demanded that the Biden administration designate India as a “country of particular concern” under the US Religious Freedom Act for targeting religious minorities overseas.

Mushaal highlighted that the report revealed that recent efforts by the Indian government to silence activists, journalists, and lawyers abroad posed a serious threat to religious freedom.

The SAPM on Human Rights and Women Empowerment called upon the international community to shun the double standard and take punitive and decisive actions against the rogue Indian state to avert the possible human catastrophe. India was fast spreading tentacles of its terrorist networks across the globe and became a threat to world peace, he stressed.

However, Mushaal made it clear that neither India nor Israel could defuse and suppress the ongoing freedom struggle of Kashmiris and Palestinians through their genocidal actions and use of ruthless power. Both states had been exercising all options for state terrorism during the last seven decades, but they failed to achieve the desired results. Their merciless measures further ignited the flames of the freedom struggle in both occupied territories.

Published in Dawn, December 20th, 2023