LAHORE – Mushaal Hussein Mullick wife of jailed Kashmiri Hurriyat leaderYasin Malik has asked Pakistan government to convene an All PartiesConference (APC) on Kashmir and expedite diplomacy on the world forums.
Speaking at a seminar on the eve of Kashmir Solidarity Day at Lahore PressClub on Tuesday, she said it was time to launch an aggressive diplomaticcampaign to draw world’s attention towards the crimes against haplessMuslims in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK), claiming if Kashmir wasPakistan’s jugular vein, it had been ripped by the recent Indiangovernment’s decision to annex the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Kashmir seminar was organized by PUJ, PFUJ, and LPC while GovernorPunjab Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar presided the seminar.
Mushaal Mullick, in the absence of her husband Yasin Malik who has beendetained by the Indian authorities in Tihar jail, has been trying to fightthe case of Kashmir on domestic and international fronts.
Mushaal Mullick expressed her fear that a genocide of Kashmiris hadstarted, adding that Jammu and Kashmir valleys were being populated withthe RSS and Shiv Sena goons.
The brave spouse of the Hurriyat leader said, “It is no time forbilateralism or multilateralism between Pakistan and Indian governments onKashmir, rather the occasion demanded for an aggressive war against theusurper”. She said, it was time to announce emergency on Kashmir by thePakistan government, adding that one were the chances of diplomacy onKashmir as all efforts from Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s Simla pact to PervezMusharraf’s four points had failed.
She said the government should deploy Global Envoys on Kashmir in order tohighlight the enormity of situation in IOK, adding that all politicalparties should formulate a unified stance on Kashmir. She said thegovernment must engage all UN procedures and rapporteurs on Kashmir.
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“Kashmiri leadership should be part of all delegations abroad whileKashmiris would not accept anything less than right to self-determination”,she demanded.
She demanded that Kashmiri freedom fighters should be awarded Pakistan’scivilian awards for their sacrifices in the fight for freedom from India.
Mushaal Mullick thanked Lahore Press Club (LPC) and other journalist bodiesin Pakistan for becoming her voice when her husband Yasin Malik was beingbrutally tortured in Tihar Jail and was under imminent threat of death. Shethanked LPC President Arshad Ansari for declaring Lahore Press Club asSrinagar Press Club. “Pakistani media is a source of sustenance for me”,she added.
Mushaal was accompanied by her mother Rehana Hussein Mullick and sevenyears old daughter Razia Sultana.
