LONDON – Former British ambassador to the UN, Sir Mark Lyall Grant, in anarticle published in US magazine, Forbes, warned of a real risk of anall-out war between Pakistan and India over Jammu and Kashmir.
He urged the international community to help resolve the dispute or elsepay a big price in the future. He said the war over Kashmir could cost theUK alone up to 20 billion pounds.
On the other hand in view of the ongoing military lockdown andcommunications blackout, occupied Jammu and Kashmir continues to remain cutoff from the rest of the world on 105th consecutive, day, today.
According to Kashmir Media Service, there is a shortage of food andmedicines, while heavy snowfall has multiplied the miseries of the haplessKashmiri people.
They have been deprived of basic and fundamental rights such as right tolife, right to education and healthcare and right to practice theirreligion. Internet and prepaid mobile services also continue to remainsuspended in the Kashmir valley.
In another development, Indian forces arrested five Kashmiri youth duringraids in two different areas of Sopore in Baramulla district. The detainedyouth were identified as Hilal Ahmad Mir, Sahil Nazir, Peerzada MohammadZahir, Ulfat Bashir Mir and Ajaz Ahmad Butt.
Kashmiri and German human rights activists have called upon the world notto ignore the abuses committed by the Indian forces in occupied Kashmir.
While addressing a seminar on ‘The Alarming Humanitarian Crisis in Kashmir’held in the German city of Stuttgart, the activists said that the occupiedterritory had been converted into a cage of humanity.
Those who addressed the function included Karl-Christian Hausmann, DrIshaq, Zafar Qureshi and Kashmir Council EU Chairman, Ali Raza Syed.
A protest demonstration organized by the Hurriyat organizations was held inIslamabad to condemn the ongoing Indian military lockdown in occupiedKashmir.
The protest was held outside National Press Club, Islamabad. The speakerson the occasion said that the occupied territory has been cut off from restof the world as there is no prepaid and internet service in Kashmir.