• About Us
  • Who Are We
  • Work With Us
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
No Result
View All Result
NEWSLETTER
The Globe Post
39 °f
New York
44 ° Fri
46 ° Sat
40 ° Sun
41 ° Mon
No Result
View All Result
The Globe Post
No Result
View All Result
Home World

Pakistan PM Khan Slams ‘Oppressor’ India on Kashmir Anniversary

Staff Writer by Staff Writer
08/05/20
in World
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks at a rally in Muzaffarabad on September 13, 2019. Photo: Aamir Qureshi/AFP.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks at a rally in Muzaffarabad on September 13, 2019. Photo: Aamir Qureshi/AFP

Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan branded India an “oppressor and aggressor” on Wednesday, a year after New Delhi imposed direct rule on Indian-administered Kashmir.

Solidarity marches were held in all major Pakistani cities to mark the anniversary of New Delhi stripping Muslim-majority Indian Kashmir of its semi-autonomous status, a move that outraged Islamabad.

Kashmir, a disputed Himalayan territory, has been split since 1947 between India and Pakistan, both of which claim it in full and have fought wars over it.

“India stands exposed before the world, yet again, as an oppressor and aggressor,” Khan said in a statement. “Its so-called secular and democratic credentials stand fully discredited,” he added, calling India’s action last year a “crime against humanity.”

Khan led a march through Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, before addressing the region’s legislative assembly.

Across the city, more than 2,000 people turned out at a series of anti-India protests.

Pakistanis wave flags and signs protesting "Indian fascism" in Indian-administered Kashmir.
Pakistanis wave flags and signs protesting “Indian fascism” in Indian-administered Kashmir. Photo: AFP

“We ask the world to give Kashmiris their right of self-determination, otherwise we will cross the Line of Control and help our brothers on the other side with arms,” Arslan Ahmad, a refugee who fled Indian-administered Kashmir, told AFP.

“Half of my family is under siege in Indian-occupied Kashmir, my mother is dying to meet her sister, this dispute has left our generations torn apart,” 31-year old Usman Mir added.

Police were enforcing tight restrictions in Indian-administered Kashmir on Wednesday, where religious and political groups had called on residents to observe a “black day.”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s Hindu nationalist government had promised the move would bring peace and prosperity to Indian Kashmir after three decades of violence sparked by an anti-India uprising.

Pakistan, however, has alleged it is a violation of the rights of Kashmiri people.

Khan accused India of trying to turn Kashmir’s Muslim majority into a minority by ending restrictions on outsiders buying up property “in blatant violation of… UN Security Council Resolutions and international laws.”

The change in rules has sparked fears that the Modi government is pursuing an Israel-style “settler” project.

A referendum in Kashmir mandated by a UN resolution in 1948 has never taken place.

“India has learned from Israel how to change the demography (of Kashmir),” President Arif Alvi told a rally in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, which observed a one-minute silence.

Hundreds of billboards and banners displayed graphic images purportedly of human rights violations by Indian authorities in Kashmir.

On Tuesday, Pakistan released a new official map showing all of Kashmir as its territory.

The Pakistan military, meanwhile, said Indian troops had fired a shell across the de-facto border, killing a young woman and wounding six other people.

Such exchanges are common along the Kashmir demarcation line, with shells blasted in both directions.

Pakistan has repeatedly likened Modi to Adolf Hitler and called for international intervention.

ShareTweet
Staff Writer

Staff Writer

AFP with The Globe Post

Related Posts

US reporter Daniel Pearl was brutally killed in 2002.
National

White House ‘Outraged’ as Pakistan Court Upholds Acquittal in Daniel Pearl Murder

by Staff Writer
January 28, 2021
A single falcon can fetch up to tens of thousands of dollars on the black market.
World

Poachers’ Paradise: Gulf Hunts Fuel Pakistan Falcon Trafficking

by Staff Writer
January 4, 2021
Imran Khan
Democracy at Risk

The Opposition Challenge in Pakistan

by Saad Hafiz
December 16, 2020
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
World

Turkey Calls for Boycott of French Goods Amid Macron Row

by Staff Writer
October 26, 2020
Rescue workers search for survivors in the debris of a collapsed building in Mahad, India on Tuesday. AFP
World

‘Like a House of Cards:’ Building Collapses in India, Killing 11

by Anya Ruppert
August 26, 2020
A woman holds a sign during a rally to mark Juneteenth on June 19, 2020, in San Francisco
Opinion

India’s Caste System Is Criticized but America’s Class System Is No Better

by Priya Harindranathan
August 21, 2020
Next Post
Alexander Lukashenko and Valdimir Putin photographed shaking hands at a press meeting.

Belarus Elections Threaten to Strain Ties With Russia

Afghanistan children fly kites during a kite festival in Kabul, November, 2016

Third of Afghans Estimated to Have Contracted Virus: Health Ministry

Please login to join discussion

Recommended

HRW released a statement on China's increasing prosecution of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang.

China Targets Uighurs With More Prosecutions, Longer Prison Terms: HRW

February 24, 2021
Stolpersteine in Greifswald, Germany.

I Can’t Mark Where My Grandfather Is Buried, but I Want to Mark Where He Lived

February 24, 2021
An Afghan health worker administering the COVID-19 vaccine.

Afghanistan Begins Covid Vaccine Campaign Amid Surge in Violence

February 23, 2021
US President Joe Biden (L) speaks as the nation's top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci looks on.

US Passes 500,000 Covid Deaths: Johns Hopkins Tracker

February 22, 2021
Many Rohingya refugees in Indonesia enlist the help of traffickers to cross the sea to neighboring Malaysia.

Rohingya Boat in Distress, Eight Dead: UN Refugee Agency

February 22, 2021
Republican Senator from Missouri Josh Hawley

Trump’s Acquittal and Republican Senators: Not Setting the Bar Low Enough

February 22, 2021

Opinion

Stolpersteine in Greifswald, Germany.

I Can’t Mark Where My Grandfather Is Buried, but I Want to Mark Where He Lived

February 24, 2021
Republican Senator from Missouri Josh Hawley

Trump’s Acquittal and Republican Senators: Not Setting the Bar Low Enough

February 22, 2021
Why Not Equality for America’s Puerto Rican Men and Women?

Why Not Equality for America’s Puerto Rican Men and Women?

February 19, 2021
Refugee child holding up a sign reading 'we are human like you'

US Asylum Laws Must Catch up With the Reality of Today’s Refugees

February 18, 2021
Students with face masks go upstairs to their classrooms at the Petri primary school in Dortmund, western Germany, on August 12, 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

As America Accelerates Vaccine Distribution, Curiosity Turns to Kids

February 15, 2021
A tray of trial COVID-19 vaccines

There Is No Vaccine for Selfishness

January 29, 2021
Facebook Twitter

Newsletter

Do you like our reporting?
SUBSCRIBE

About Us

The Globe Post

The Globe Post is part of Globe Post Media, a U.S. digital news organization that is publishing the world's best targeted news sites.

submit oped

© 2018 The Globe Post

No Result
View All Result
  • National
  • World
  • Business
  • Interviews
  • Lifestyle
  • Democracy at Risk
    • Media Freedom
  • Opinion
    • Editorials
    • Columns
    • Book Reviews
    • Stage
  • Submit Op-ed

© 2018 The Globe Post