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Islamabad, October 30, 2019 (PPI-OT): Vice President of Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party, Mehmood Ahmed Saghar, while expressing his serious concern over the continued clampdown and communications blockade in occupied Kashmir has said that Modi-led fascist regime is shamelessly arranging the visits of European Lawmakers to show ‘all is well’ in occupied Kashmir.
Mehmood Ahmed Saghar in a statement in Islamabad said that the so-called normalcy narrative promoted by New Delhi was nothing but an outlandish act to create a smokescreen to conceal the horrendous crimes Indian troops have been committing against the unarmed and defenseless people of Kashmir.
“If the situation in Kashmir is really normal then why didn’t they give visiting lawmakers an unfettered access to common people and places in Kashmir to have a fair assessment of the situation?” Saghar asked.
This concocted narrative, he said, was not only exposed by the leaders of Indian opposition parties but also by the European Lawmakers who have been part of the delegation that visited Kashmir, recently. Besides Congress leader, Rahul Ghandi, Nicolaus Fest, one of the MPs who visited Kashmir was quoted as saying by a news agency that “there is some kind of disbalance, which the government should somehow address,” Saghar pointed out.
Referring to another MP Saghar said, “Chris Davies, MEP from Britain’s Liberal Democrat had refused to be a part in a PR stunt for the Modi government and pretend that all is well.” He urged New Delhi to accept and acknowledge the ground reality that Kashmir is a dispute that needs to be resolved peacefully in accordance with the universally-accepted principle of right to self-determination.
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